Dancing Spirits
Dancing Spirits

Author: Iris Laine M. Div.

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-07

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0595405169

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Dancing Spirits brings together our spiritual beliefs accepted by faith and shows how the latest Quantum Physics research unites our faith with fact. It makes subatomic research understandable even to the scientific novice and shows how science now reveals in the laboratory what the religions of the world have asked us to accept by faith since before recorded history. In doing so, Dancing Spirits enhances and reinforces our spiritual faith and guides us in making contact with the everlasting Spirit within us. It encourages and helps our own inner Spirit, which is truly our invisible Soul, to literally dance in hope and joy now and look forward without fear or doubt to the heaven hereafter with those we've loved and lost.

Moko Jumbies
Moko Jumbies

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Seventeen years ago, Glen 'Dragon' De Souza founded the Keylemanjahro School of Arts and Culture on the

Dancing Spirits
Dancing Spirits

Author: Gerdes Fleurant

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1996-10-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313297185

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The reflexive approach and the concept of bimusicality have made possible this in-depth study of the Rada rite, the foundation of the complex and sensationalized religion of Haiti, Vodun. Fleurant returned to his native Haiti to immerse himself in the socio-cultural life of those who practice the religion that was brought to Haiti by the people captured in Africa from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Through total immersion in daily life culture and apprenticeship in the music culture (reflexive approach and concept of bimusicality), the author has accessed information and provided a descriptive analysis heretofore unavailable to scholars. From this privileged position, the author details the complexity, sophistication, and beauty of the ritual, music, and dance. The pioneering works on the music or the dance of Vodun have attempted to cover the whole ritual spectrum. Fleurant contends that the religion is too complex and too sensationalized to be treated in one volume and that each rite should be studied separately and in greater depth. Dancing Spirits examines drum rhythms, song tunes, and texts of the major Rada dances. A model of the Rada ceremony in Bòpo, a community located some ten miles north of Port-au-Prince, serves as a guide to the reader not familiar with Vodun liturgy. The work challenges studies that do not delve deeply enough into this complex religion, and serves as a model for further studies.

Dancing My Dream
Dancing My Dream

Author: Warren Petoskey

Publisher: David Crumm Media

Published: 2017-02-02

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1942011741

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This memoir of Native American teacher, writer and artist Warren Petoskey spans centuries and lights up shadowy corners of American history with important memories of Indian culture and survival. Warren's family connects with many key episodes in Indian history, including the tragedy of boarding schools that imprisoned thousands of Indian children as well as the traumatic effects of alcohol abuse and bigotry. He writes honestly about the impact of these tragedies, and continually returns to Indian traditions as the deepest healing resources for native peoples. He writes about the wisdom that comes from practices such as fishing, hunting and sharing poetry. This memoir is an essential voice in the chorus of Indian leaders testifying to major chapters of American history largely missing from most narratives of our nation's past.

Dancing Spirit
Dancing Spirit

Author: Judith Jamison

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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The candid and provocative autobiography of the first black superstar of American dance. Voices of those who have known and worked with her through the years are interwoven with Jamison's own to make Dancing Spirit a vivid portrait of a life lived without a moment's waste. 45 photos.

Spirit Song
Spirit Song

Author: Marc Gidal

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-01-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0199368236

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In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque. Combining ethnomusicology and symbolic boundary studies, Gidal advances a theory of musical boundary-work: the ways music reinforces, bridges, or blurs boundaries, whether for personal, social, spiritual, or political purposes. Gidal focuses on spirit-mediumship rituals and their musical accompaniment, exploring how the Afro-gaucho religious community employs music and rituals to variously promote innovation and egalitarianism in Umbanda and Quimbanda, while it reinforces musical preservation and hierarchies in Batuque. Religious and musical leaders carefully restrict the cosmologies, ceremonial sequences, and sung prayers of one religion from affecting the others so as to safeguard Batuque's African heritage. Members of disenfranchised populations view the religions as vehicles for empowerment, whether based on race-ethnicity, gender, or religious belief; and innovations in ritual music reflect this activism. These rituals come to life through illustrative video and audio examples on the book's companion website. The first book in English to focus on music in Afro-Brazilian religions, Spirit Song is a landmark study that will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars.

Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels
Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels

Author: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780865437074

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How do Africans conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, constructions, imaginings of spaces and places affect, and in turn are affected by, social, economic and political change. These are some of the questions answered in this, the first book of its kind to address systematically the themes of of space and spatiality.

Twin from Another Tribe
Twin from Another Tribe

Author: Michael Ortiz Hill

Publisher: Quest Books

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780835608527

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A gift to a world divided by race, this memoir is of two healers in the Bantu tradition-one in Africa, one in a U.S. hospital-who know themselves as spiritual twins. Merging Western medicine with shamanic practice, they offer a profound view of peacemaking that requires meeting "the other" as friend and teacher.

Dancing Spirit, Love, and War
Dancing Spirit, Love, and War

Author: Evadne Kelly

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0299322009

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Meke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated history of colonialism, racism, censorship, and religious conflict, meke remained a vital part of artistic expression and culture. Evadne Kelly performs close readings of the dance in relation to an evolving landscape, following the postcolonial reclamation that provided dancers with political agency and a strong sense of community that connected and fractured Fijians worldwide. Through extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork in both Fiji and Canada, Kelly offers key insights into an underrepresented dance form, region, and culture. Her perceptive analysis of meke will be of interest in dance studies, postcolonial and Indigenous studies, anthropology and performance ethnography, and Pacific Island studies.

A Painted Ridge: Rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
A Painted Ridge: Rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Author: David Mendel Witelson

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1789692458

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This book explores a suite of spatially close San (Bushmen) rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference.