Egil Bakka
Biographic Data
| ID | 164736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Egil Bakka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Egil |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakka |
| SIGNATURE | BAKKA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9959-1474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural sustainability— Art and Ubuntu as rationales for dancing
This article scrutinises the rationales for dancing in the world and how they affect dance sustainability. These rationales are assumptions about societal values of dance that underlie national as well as international cultural policies, so basic that they are rarely challenged. The authors bring a challenge by asking if there is one universally valid and sustainable rationale for dancing, which makes sense to the totality of the global populatio…
Modes of Dance Realisations – Netloristic Analysis of Dance
This article addresses the new wealth of dance films made available through the internet. Clusters of approaches for the study of internet communities are often referred to as netnography. We aim to contribute an approach we call “netloristical” methodologies for dance. While netnography studies online communities, we propose netloristics, in parallel with folkloristics, as a term for studying their expressions, the netlore. Among other things, t…
Words and meanings – decolonising dance-music terminology
This article aims to identify and situate problems of dance and music terminology arising when we, as scholars in this field, write about a practice in another language than that spoken by the practitioners. This happens ever more often because English is rising to become a world language. In the first section of the article, a brief discussion of political argumentation regarding language hegemony outlines the context in which the problem arises…
Kva kan dansehistoria fortelja om røtene til bygdedansen
This article discusses how dance forms have developed and spread through the ages and works in particular with the genre that we in Norway call regional dances. In contrast to much other research into dance history, it is the dances as movement patterns that I focus on, rather than their context. Therefore, I will also discuss methodological approaches suitable for such a focus. The conventional method is to study old sources in both writing and …
Decolonising or Recolonising: Struggles on Cultural Heritage
This article directly responds to an article authored by Iacono and Brown published in Dance Research (2016), and considers issues emerging since its publication. The core topic is the UNESCO Convention from 2003, and in our view, criticism in the 2016 article is based on misinterpretation. We address the claims that the Convention is marked by binarism and provide in-depth background for the concept of intangible cultural heritage. We also cauti…
Multi-Track Practices and Linearisation: Safeguarding Variability or Authorised Versions
This article discusses aspects of the epistemology of practice. It defines the term practice to mean bodily actions, that usually have names and are considered as repeated or reoccurring in society and often based upon advanced skills. Examples could be ice skating, playing a fiddle tune, braiding hair, making a vegetable soup or dancing the waltz. The article addresses the methodology in the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage at one na…
Writing A Dance: Epistemology for Dance Research
Over several years the authors of this article have had intensive discussions to find common ground in the topic they both specialize in: dance. Egil Bakka is a Norwegian ethnochoreologist, specializing in Nordic traditional dance/folk dance; Gediminas Karoblis is a Lithuanian philosopher, specializing in phenomenology and ballroom dancing. Our starting point was a philosophical question about the notion of dance knowledge and a shared worry abou…
The Polka before and after the Polka
L'A. examine l'histoire d'un certain type de danse, dont le nom officiel est la polka, et qu'il identifie, a partir de son contenu choregraphique et musical, comme la polka a deux mesures et mouvement rotatif. S'appuyant notamment sur l'exemple de la diversite des termes populaires designant cette danse en Norvege, il tente de montrer qu'il existait une polka differente avant et apres la polka originelle qui a donne son nom a cette danse. Selon l…
The Centre of the Norwegian Council for Folk Music and Folk Dance (Rådet for folkemusikk og folkedans, University of Trondheim; Dragvoll, Norway)
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The Computer as a Tool in Dance Research
In this article I will present how computers are used in dance research at Radet for folkemusikk og folkedans, Sekretariatet (RffS) (The Centre of the Norwegian Council for Folk Music and Folk Dance) at the University of Trondheim. Recognizing that data technology is not an end in itself, our use of computers is focused on objectives of our institution.' The focus of our research is influenced by the basic values on which the institution was foun…
Dansetradisjonar Fra Nordland og Troms
Folk Music of Norway
On shoreline dating of arctic rock carvings in Vingen, Western Norway
Two Aurar of Gold. Contributions to the Weight History of the Migration Period
Two Migration period finds of gold ‘payment rings’ from south-western Norway are identified as sets of balance weights, carefully adjusted to the old system of aurar and ertogar (pl. of ON eyrir m. and ertog m.), metrologically taken over from the Roman system, with the eyrir equivalent to the Roman ounce of 27·29 gm. The sets can be used for weighing with great accuracy at intervals of eyrir, one being adjusted to an eyrir value of 27·42 gm., th…
Goldbrakteaten in norwegischen Grabfunden: Datierungsfragen
Early farming in hordaland, western Norway. Problems and approaches in archaeology and pollen analysis
This article discusses the evidence of farming settlements in Neolithic times in the county of Hordaland, in western Norway, and possible ways for future research to establish the introduction of a farming economy, with its cultural and ecological implications. Using distribution maps, Bakka demonstrates how the people of the mainly hunting and fishing sub‐Neolithic dwelling‐place culture of the Middle Neolithic period preferred a coastal area of…
A research programme for the future
Further aspects and problems of the cultural situation at the time of early farming in Hordaland
A Roman bronze mount from Tr⊘ndelag
Reply to Comments on Methodological Problems in the Study of Gold Bracteates
Methodological Problems in the Study of Gold Bracteates
The background for this article is Mats P. Malmer's work Metodproblem inom järnålderns kortstbistoria, especially the chapter concerning the gold bracteates, and Egil Bakka discusses the methodology which Malmer has used when dealing with some important problems. Bakka begins by criticizing Malmer's classification and systematization of the gold bracteates. He intends to show by selected examples that Malmer's typological classification does not …
The Alfred Jewel and Sight
The Alfred jewel, found in 1693 in Newton Park near the Island of Athelney in Somerset, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is one of the most famous pieces of late Saxon jewellery. It is an intriguing object which has never been satisfactorily explained. The main facts and theories about it are conveniently summarized in the booklet by Miss Joan Kirk (now Mrs. J. R. Clarke) published by the Ashmolean Museum. This present note is mainly concerne…
Early farming in hordaland, western Norway. Problems and approaches in archaeology and pollen analysis
This article discusses the evidence of farming settlements in Neolithic times in the county of Hordaland, in western Norway, and possible ways for future research to establish the introduction of a farming economy, with its cultural and ecological implications. Using distribution maps, Bakka demonstrates how the people of the mainly hunting and fishing sub‐Neolithic dwelling‐place culture of the Middle Neolithic period preferred a coastal area of…
Writing A Dance: Epistemology for Dance Research
Over several years the authors of this article have had intensive discussions to find common ground in the topic they both specialize in: dance. Egil Bakka is a Norwegian ethnochoreologist, specializing in Nordic traditional dance/folk dance; Gediminas Karoblis is a Lithuanian philosopher, specializing in phenomenology and ballroom dancing. Our starting point was a philosophical question about the notion of dance knowledge and a shared worry abou…
On shoreline dating of arctic rock carvings in Vingen, Western Norway
Two Aurar of Gold. Contributions to the Weight History of the Migration Period
Two Migration period finds of gold ‘payment rings’ from south-western Norway are identified as sets of balance weights, carefully adjusted to the old system of aurar and ertogar (pl. of ON eyrir m. and ertog m.), metrologically taken over from the Roman system, with the eyrir equivalent to the Roman ounce of 27·29 gm. The sets can be used for weighing with great accuracy at intervals of eyrir, one being adjusted to an eyrir value of 27·42 gm., th…
The Alfred Jewel and Sight
The Alfred jewel, found in 1693 in Newton Park near the Island of Athelney in Somerset, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is one of the most famous pieces of late Saxon jewellery. It is an intriguing object which has never been satisfactorily explained. The main facts and theories about it are conveniently summarized in the booklet by Miss Joan Kirk (now Mrs. J. R. Clarke) published by the Ashmolean Museum. This present note is mainly concerne…
The Centre of the Norwegian Council for Folk Music and Folk Dance (Rådet for folkemusikk og folkedans, University of Trondheim; Dragvoll, Norway)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Methodological Problems in the Study of Gold Bracteates
The background for this article is Mats P. Malmer's work Metodproblem inom järnålderns kortstbistoria, especially the chapter concerning the gold bracteates, and Egil Bakka discusses the methodology which Malmer has used when dealing with some important problems. Bakka begins by criticizing Malmer's classification and systematization of the gold bracteates. He intends to show by selected examples that Malmer's typological classification does not …
The Alfred Jewel and Sight
The Alfred jewel, found in 1693 in Newton Park near the Island of Athelney in Somerset, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is one of the most famous pieces of late Saxon jewellery. It is an intriguing object which has never been satisfactorily explained. The main facts and theories about it are conveniently summarized in the booklet by Miss Joan Kirk (now Mrs. J. R. Clarke) published by the Ashmolean Museum. This present note is mainly concerne…
Reply to Comments on Methodological Problems in the Study of Gold Bracteates
Methodological Problems in the Study of Gold Bracteates
The background for this article is Mats P. Malmer's work Metodproblem inom järnålderns kortstbistoria, especially the chapter concerning the gold bracteates, and Egil Bakka discusses the methodology which Malmer has used when dealing with some important problems. Bakka begins by criticizing Malmer's classification and systematization of the gold bracteates. He intends to show by selected examples that Malmer's typological classification does not …
A Roman bronze mount from Tr⊘ndelag
Early farming in hordaland, western Norway. Problems and approaches in archaeology and pollen analysis
This article discusses the evidence of farming settlements in Neolithic times in the county of Hordaland, in western Norway, and possible ways for future research to establish the introduction of a farming economy, with its cultural and ecological implications. Using distribution maps, Bakka demonstrates how the people of the mainly hunting and fishing sub‐Neolithic dwelling‐place culture of the Middle Neolithic period preferred a coastal area of…
A research programme for the future
Further aspects and problems of the cultural situation at the time of early farming in Hordaland
Goldbrakteaten in norwegischen Grabfunden: Datierungsfragen
Two Aurar of Gold. Contributions to the Weight History of the Migration Period
Two Migration period finds of gold ‘payment rings’ from south-western Norway are identified as sets of balance weights, carefully adjusted to the old system of aurar and ertogar (pl. of ON eyrir m. and ertog m.), metrologically taken over from the Roman system, with the eyrir equivalent to the Roman ounce of 27·29 gm. The sets can be used for weighing with great accuracy at intervals of eyrir, one being adjusted to an eyrir value of 27·42 gm., th…
On shoreline dating of arctic rock carvings in Vingen, Western Norway
Folk Music of Norway
Dansetradisjonar Fra Nordland og Troms
The Centre of the Norwegian Council for Folk Music and Folk Dance (Rådet for folkemusikk og folkedans, University of Trondheim; Dragvoll, Norway)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Computer as a Tool in Dance Research
In this article I will present how computers are used in dance research at Radet for folkemusikk og folkedans, Sekretariatet (RffS) (The Centre of the Norwegian Council for Folk Music and Folk Dance) at the University of Trondheim. Recognizing that data technology is not an end in itself, our use of computers is focused on objectives of our institution.' The focus of our research is influenced by the basic values on which the institution was foun…
The Polka before and after the Polka
L'A. examine l'histoire d'un certain type de danse, dont le nom officiel est la polka, et qu'il identifie, a partir de son contenu choregraphique et musical, comme la polka a deux mesures et mouvement rotatif. S'appuyant notamment sur l'exemple de la diversite des termes populaires designant cette danse en Norvege, il tente de montrer qu'il existait une polka differente avant et apres la polka originelle qui a donne son nom a cette danse. Selon l…
Writing A Dance: Epistemology for Dance Research
Over several years the authors of this article have had intensive discussions to find common ground in the topic they both specialize in: dance. Egil Bakka is a Norwegian ethnochoreologist, specializing in Nordic traditional dance/folk dance; Gediminas Karoblis is a Lithuanian philosopher, specializing in phenomenology and ballroom dancing. Our starting point was a philosophical question about the notion of dance knowledge and a shared worry abou…
Multi-Track Practices and Linearisation: Safeguarding Variability or Authorised Versions
This article discusses aspects of the epistemology of practice. It defines the term practice to mean bodily actions, that usually have names and are considered as repeated or reoccurring in society and often based upon advanced skills. Examples could be ice skating, playing a fiddle tune, braiding hair, making a vegetable soup or dancing the waltz. The article addresses the methodology in the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage at one na…
Decolonising or Recolonising: Struggles on Cultural Heritage
This article directly responds to an article authored by Iacono and Brown published in Dance Research (2016), and considers issues emerging since its publication. The core topic is the UNESCO Convention from 2003, and in our view, criticism in the 2016 article is based on misinterpretation. We address the claims that the Convention is marked by binarism and provide in-depth background for the concept of intangible cultural heritage. We also cauti…
Kva kan dansehistoria fortelja om røtene til bygdedansen
This article discusses how dance forms have developed and spread through the ages and works in particular with the genre that we in Norway call regional dances. In contrast to much other research into dance history, it is the dances as movement patterns that I focus on, rather than their context. Therefore, I will also discuss methodological approaches suitable for such a focus. The conventional method is to study old sources in both writing and …
Modes of Dance Realisations – Netloristic Analysis of Dance
This article addresses the new wealth of dance films made available through the internet. Clusters of approaches for the study of internet communities are often referred to as netnography. We aim to contribute an approach we call “netloristical” methodologies for dance. While netnography studies online communities, we propose netloristics, in parallel with folkloristics, as a term for studying their expressions, the netlore. Among other things, t…
Words and meanings – decolonising dance-music terminology
This article aims to identify and situate problems of dance and music terminology arising when we, as scholars in this field, write about a practice in another language than that spoken by the practitioners. This happens ever more often because English is rising to become a world language. In the first section of the article, a brief discussion of political argumentation regarding language hegemony outlines the context in which the problem arises…
Cultural sustainability— Art and Ubuntu as rationales for dancing
This article scrutinises the rationales for dancing in the world and how they affect dance sustainability. These rationales are assumptions about societal values of dance that underlie national as well as international cultural policies, so basic that they are rarely challenged. The authors bring a challenge by asking if there is one universally valid and sustainable rationale for dancing, which makes sense to the totality of the global populatio…
History (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Dance (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works)