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Taira's Reflections, Taira Schurman, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Taira's Reflections, Taira Schurman, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Student Reflections
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Motion Capture For Orature Wintersession 2024 | Syllabus, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Motion Capture For Orature Wintersession 2024 | Syllabus, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
This winter session course invites students to explore motion capture through the lens of traditional oral storytelling practices. Students will actively identify the unique and distinguishing features of orature, and leverage their own cultural backgrounds, personal perspectives, and idiosyncrasies to create motion capture data that can be used in crafting an immersive digital retelling of a folktale.
Session 3 | The Oral Storyteller, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Session 3 | The Oral Storyteller, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab
Course Materials
Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.
Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern And Contemporary African Art From The Kam Collection, Charles Mason, Andie Near
Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern And Contemporary African Art From The Kam Collection, Charles Mason, Andie Near
Kruizenga Art Museum Exhibition Catalogs
Kruizenga Art Museum, Hope College Catalog for the exhibition: Deep Roots New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection. Exhibition dates: January 12 – May 18, 2024. Charles Mason, author. Andie Near, photographer, designer.
Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins
Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins
Faculty Books & Book Chapters
Since the mid-twentieth century, music has played a central role in encounters and interactions between the people of Japan and those of African descent. It proved far more effective for pro- moting interracial dialogue and understanding than efforts in the early 1900s to foster an alliance against white supremacy and imperialism. This essay unpacks the ways that encounters with Black music transformed Japanese musicking and generated knowledge and empathy for people of African descent among Japanese. Personal interactions between Black and Japanese musicians constituted a process of “grassroots globalization” that circumvented the dominance of American mass media in representing African …