Caribbean dance: ‘resistance’, colonial discourse, and subjugated knowledges

Maurer, Bill

doi:10.1163/13822373-90002014

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“…which reinforces relation of power and domination along the lines and location in the first versus the “third” world. (Maurer, 1991, p. 2)…”

Section: Pedagogies Of African Dances: Deconstructing the Epistemologmentioning

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Teaching African Dances in the Caribbean: Horizontal Interpenetration and Afrocentricity in Jamaica

Mabingo

2018

Journal of Black Studies

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This article examines how pedagogy of African dances can act as a site where issues of Afrocentricity and horizontal interconnection can be activated, negotiated, and embodied. I draw on the selected reflections of the participants in dance workshops and my experiences as a teacher of Ugandan dances in Jamaica to demonstrate how pedagogy allowed the learners to embody, deconstruct, and conceptualize kinaesthetic, storied, and musicalized dance material as valued and valid knowledge that is anchored in the worldviews, dignities, and ontologies of indigenous Ugandan communities from where the dances originate. The article frames pedagogy of the dances as an epistemological and ontological framework through which the learners sought to know, think, do, question, connect, and become. For people of African descent, partaking in teaching and learning processes of the dances created possibilities for cultural connections through experiential, imaginative, participatory, and reflective dance activities. The analysis further reveals how teaching dances from African cultures, a subject that is treated as insignificant within academic and artistic thought, positioned me to en/counter, rationalize, and address the challenges, dilemmas, and anxieties surrounding Black dance scholarship. It is hoped that this article

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“…which reinforces relation of power and domination along the lines and location in the first versus the “third” world. (Maurer, 1991, p. 2)…”

Section: Pedagogies Of African Dances: Deconstructing the Epistemologmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching African Dances in the Caribbean: Horizontal Interpenetration and Afrocentricity in Jamaica

Mabingo

2018

Journal of Black Studies

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“…These concepts of governing bodies and power could be useful in exploring how cultural/ethnic stereotypes, or embodied stereotypes and cultural values affect rangatahi Māori experience of the world and their understandings of their own identities. Important work has been done in looking at embodiment in relation to performance, and dance as sites of resistance and Indigenous revitalisation (Maurer 1991, Rivera-Servera 2004, Teaiwa 2015. I argue that Kapa Haka is experienced as an embodied expression of Māori identity which, within the context of Aotearoa today, is an act of Indigenous revitalisation.…”

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“Ngā pakiaka a Te Rēhia, ka tipua i te ao rangatahi” An Intersectional Analysis of Kapa Haka and Healing for Rangatahi Māori

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<p>“Pāpaki whakapapa, Pāpaki ahurea, Pāpaki oranga, Ki ngā pakiaka a te rēhia, Kia tipua ai i te ao Rangatahi.” This thesis provides insights into the experiences of rangatahi Māori and Kapa Haka. Through an intersectional and Kaupapa Māori lens, it explores the potential of Kapa Haka in the realms of belonging, identity and healing. In doing so, it illustrates the dynamic value of Kapa Haka for alleviating cultural disconnection and facilitating healing within the context of current contemporary challenges such as the mental health crisis, climate change tensions and discrimination that rangatahi Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand face today. The aim of this work is to contribute to the wave of Kaupapa Māori research demonstrating the transformative impact of Māori tikanga, kawa, and knowledges in alleviating the impact of colonial violence on the wellbeing of our people. This thesis draws on Wānanga as a powerful method for co-constructing knowledge with rangatahi Māori. Claiming Wānanga as a method contributes to the decolonial project not by inventing something new, but by recognising the power and sophistication of Indigenous knowledge making processes. This thesis weaves together the experiences of ten Wānanga participants with autoethnographic reflections, literature, cultural theory and contemporary discussion to provide nuanced glimpses into the complex entity that is Kapa Haka today.</p>

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Emancipating the nation (again): Notes on nationalism, “modernization,” and other dilemmas in post‐colonial Jamaica

Thomas

1999

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Caribbean dance: ‘resistance’, colonial discourse, and subjugated knowledges

Cited by 21 publications

References 31 publications

Teaching African Dances in the Caribbean: Horizontal Interpenetration and Afrocentricity in Jamaica

Teaching African Dances in the Caribbean: Horizontal Interpenetration and Afrocentricity in Jamaica

“Ngā pakiaka a Te Rēhia, ka tipua i te ao rangatahi” An Intersectional Analysis of Kapa Haka and Healing for Rangatahi Māori

Emancipating the nation (again): Notes on nationalism, “modernization,” and other dilemmas in post‐colonial Jamaica

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