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1. How did you first get interested in BaAka music and dance?

2. What is the social context of BaAka music?

3. What are the meanings of this dance?

4. Are there BaAka dances specifically for women?

5. Where do the dances come from?

6. What is the larger historical context?

7. How do you teach students about BaAka music and dance?

8. How do students make sense of BaAka music and dance?

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Grateful Acknowledgement is made to the following institutions and individuals for permission to publish material from their collections:

Michelle Kisliuk, Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance, Oxford University Press, 1998 (paper 2000).

Alonzo King's Lines Ballet

 

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