Natasa Chanta-Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natasa Chanta-Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natasa |
| FAMILY NAME | Chanta-Martin |
| SIGNATURE | CHANTA-MARTIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Choreomundus Master Programme — International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage Kalama 10, 15343, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece E-mail: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dance perspectives on drum language
Among the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria, dancers have the ability to relate not only to music and rhythm, but also to the Yoruba tonal language. This is due to the fact that instruments being played during a dance event, once they are manipulated by the drummer, can follow the Yoruba language's tonality. Therefore, the so-called talking drums have the ability to articulate proverbs, poems, stories. The dancers' representations or interpretat…
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Dance perspectives on drum language
Among the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria, dancers have the ability to relate not only to music and rhythm, but also to the Yoruba tonal language. This is due to the fact that instruments being played during a dance event, once they are manipulated by the drummer, can follow the Yoruba language's tonality. Therefore, the so-called talking drums have the ability to articulate proverbs, poems, stories. The dancers' representations or interpretat…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Dance (1 work) · Gesture (1 work) · History (1 work) · Improvisation (1 work) · Indigenous (1 work) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (1 work) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work)