Yoruba Dance: The Semiotics of Movement and Body Attitude in a Nigerian Culture

Omofolabo S. Ajayi

$21.95 / Paperback


  • ISBN 0865435634

  • Africa World Press

This book investigates the esthetics, significance, and the production of meaning in Yoruba dance forms through an analysis of the dancer's body attitude in communication as well as through the events in which dances take place.   The overall analysis emphasizes the fundamental integration of dance and dace-event in the African aesthetic, which is designed to both entertain and instruct.


 

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