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The Return Beat - Interfacing with Our Interface: A Spiritual Approach to the Golden Triangle
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June Boyce-Tillman Olugbenga Taiwo

The Return Beat - Interfacing with Our Interface

A Spiritual Approach to the Golden Triangle

June Boyce-Tillman,  Olugbenga Taiwo

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English
Peter Lang Ltd
04 May 2021
World music
Series: Music and Spirituality
This book represents a significant contribution to debates about identity, the arts and spirituality. Written in an autoethnographic style, the author charts his own journey into understanding the interface between himself, culture and digital technology. He charts a course through West African orate and literate traditions and their relationship to the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans, describing how they became a source of so many dance traditions in Europe and the Americas, such as capoeira, Afro Brazilian and Cuban movement, Hip Hop and Samba. He enters into a detailed analysis of Western linear time and the African curved time; the flux of the Return Beat. He sets out a description of the Yoruba religion of the Orishas; centred around the figure of Olodumare and the concept of Ashe, the animating force of the natural world. As a practitioner of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, he draws comparisons with Chinese spiritual practice and other philosophical traditions, always linking these with the movement of the body both as generative forces and reflective frames. He constructs the framework of the Return Beat, physical journal and mobile studio practice from an understanding of many intercultural, conceptual and performative practices, embodied over his career as a performer.
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Imprint:   Peter Lang Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   450g
ISBN:   9781787079397
ISBN 10:   1787079392
Series:   Music and Spirituality
Pages:   274
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Olu Taiwo is a senior lecturer in Physical theatre, Acting and Movement at the University of Winchester. He has a background in Fine art, Street performance art, African percussion and various martial arts including T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Capoeira. He has performed nationally and internationally in performances and lecture demonstrations promoting concepts surrounding practice as research, including how practice explores relationships between ‘effort’, and ‘performative actions’. He investigates how with performatively as ‘individuals’ we interface with the increasing digital complexity regarding our experience in the twenty-first century.

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