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CAT 367 — African Music and Dance

BA BA Culture and Tourism · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

This course is designed to help students examine the meanings and principles underlying the Development and practice of dance in traditional dance forms. The course aims at helping students to understand traditional dance forms. The course will involve contextual study of dance in Ghanaian traditional societies; the place of dance in social, ritual and recreational contexts; meanings and methods of performance, role identities and symbolism in selected dances from the selected regions Ghana. Complementary instructions would be arranged with resource persons connected with traditional institutions. The course would be illustrated with musical recording films/video, occasion field trips to traditional areas for observation of traditional dances.

Credits
2
Level
Level 300

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Course details from Culture and Tourism - Department of Geography & Rural Development.