collins2004
|
Collins, [Edmund] John: |
CONTENTS
List of figures and tables 9
Forward 13
Introduction 17
Section One
ANCIENT AFRICAN WISDOM 25
Chapter One
African Music as Microcosm 25
Theme One: Polarised Tension -The On and Offbeat 25
Theme Two: Relativity – Multiple Cross-Rhythms 28
Ewe Children’s Song 29
The Akan Children’s Akoko Funu Rhythmic Game 30
The Ye-Ye Clapping Game of Ewe 30
The Akan Ampe Rhythmic Elimination Game 31
The Adowa Drum-Dance of the Ashanti 32
The Agbadza Social Dance of the Ewe 34
Theme Three: Hidden Space – Syncopation and Swing 40
Rhythmic Syncopation 41
The Rhythmic Flexibility of “Swing” 45
Three Examples of the Spacey African Rhythms 49
Rhythmic Muting: The Adowa Dance 49
Rhythmic Editing: The Ye-Ye Children’s Game,
Gahu and Highlife 50
Rhythmic Breaks and Freezes in African and
Black Diaspora Dance 52
Theme Four: Holism -The Collective Beat 53
The Interference of Cross-Rhythms 53
Theme Five: Circularity- Rhythmic Reincarnation 57
Five Features of the Cyclical African Beat 60
Staggered Rhythms 60
The Juxtaposition of Beginning and End 61
Critical Junctures 64
The Square Dance Within the Circle 65
Circles of Sound and Silence 65
Theme Six: A Driving Touch of Asymmetry –
The Propulsive Bell 70
Theme Seven: Mature Poise – Master-musician and
Centred Dancer 72
The Balance of the Hot and Cool 75
Theme Eight: Freedom and Necessity – The Art of Improvisation 78
Theme Nine: The Participatory Mode – Audience Involvement 82
Chapter Two
The Traditional African Macrocosm and Worldview 85
Introductory History of Africa 85
The African Macrocosm 94
Theme One: Polarised Tension – Divine Twins and Sexual
Metaphors 94
The Twinning of Spiritual On and Offbeats 94
Sexual Polarity in Africa 96
Conclusion 104
Theme Two: Relativity – Polytheism, Polycalenders and
Multiple Souls 105
Polytheism 105
Multiple Souls 108
Polycyclic Calendars 110
Polysided Life 111
Conclusion 112
Theme Three: Hidden Space – Cosmic and Ritual Swing 113
Africa’s Laid-Back Creator 115
Africa’s Offbeat Trickster Deity 119
Ritual Intervals in Africa 120
Conclusion 122
Theme Four: Holism -The Animating Universal Spirit and
Eternal Now 124
The Universal Spirit 124
The Eternal Now and Accumulated and Spatial Time 126
Conclusion 128
Theme Five: Circularity – The Eternal Return, Life Cycles,
Serpents and African Mandalas 129
The African Life Cycle and Seasonal Rounds 129
Ancient Spirals and sacred circles 133
Serpents and other African Mandalas 137
Conclusion 142
Theme Six: A Driving Touch of Asymmetry –
Tricksters and Ritual Clowns 143
Conclusion 144
Theme Seven: Mature Poise – Elders and the Balance of
the Hot and Cool 145
The Equilibrium of the Elder 145
The Hot and the Cool of the Old Religions 147
Conclusion 151
Theme Eight: Freewill and Determinism 153
The African Socio-Political Realm: Checks, Balances
and Polycentrism 155
African Creativity in the Modern World 158
Theme Nine: The Participatory Mode – The Sacred Community 160
Section Two
THE SPACE AND INFORMATION AGE 166
Chapter Three
Modern Babylon: The Emergence of Industrial Babylon and
its Mechanistic Vision 166
Reactions against the Mechanistic Vision 175
Thematic Chapter One
Polarised Tension 184
Brain Lateralisation and Twin Psychosocial Archetypes 185
Structuralism and the Polarity of Language and Mind 187
Atomic Opposites and Wave Interference 189
Conclusion 195
Thematic Chapter Two
Relativism 197
Albert Einstein 198
Psychological Complexes and Multiple Archetypes 203
Parallel Processes and Cybernetic Counterpoint 207
Helmholtz’s Sound Spectrum 209
Conclusion 212
Thematic Chapter Three
Hidden Space 215
The Modern Rediscovery of the Inner Realm:
The Physiological Unconscious and Existential Emptiness 216
Mathematical Space – Zeros, Limits and Incompleteness 219
The Pythagorean Comma: Mathematico-Musical
Incompleteness 222
Cybernetic Silence and Computer Swing 227
Atomic Gaps 229
Cosmic Black Holes 234
Conclusion 240
Syncopated Structural Space 241
Swinging Space 242
Thematic Chapter Four
Holism 245
Gestalt Psychology 245
The Balance of the Left and Right Brain 247
Table: The complimentary partnership between the
left and right brain modes of thinking 248
Jungian Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious 251
Atomic Complementarity 257
Einstein’s Space-Time Continuum and the Interconvertability of
Energy and Matter 258
Universal Interconnectedness and Bell’s Theorem 259
Universal Interconnectedness and the Laser Hologram 260
Conclusion 262
Thematic Chapter Five
Circularity 265
Einstein’s Curved Continuum 266
A Reincarnating Universe 266
Jungian Mandalas and the Cycle of the Self 268
Cybernetic Unity and Information Feedback Loops 274
Conclusion 278
Thematic Chapter Six
A Driving Touch of Asymmetry 281
Musical Time: The Western Scale and Trickster Triad 282
Two Physical Arrows of Time: Metastable Hydrogen and
Atomic Handedness 285
A Third Physical Arrow of Time: Entropy 286
Conclusion 288
Thematic Chapter Seven
Mature Poise 290
Psychological Stages Towards a Balanced Personality 292
Depth Psychology and the Healing Unconscious 294
The Mind/Body Split: The Human Potential Movement and
Performance Therapy 297
Getting to Roots: Linking the Past with the Present 298
Super Strings: Uniting Hot Flux and Cool Geometries 301
Conclusion 305
Thematic Chapter Eight
Freewill and Determinism 310
Existential Freedom and Fulfilment Psychology 312
Permutational Choice: Bi-Associationism and Lateral Thinking 313
Obstructionist, Deconstructionism and Poetic Difference 315
Creative Chaos 316
Quantum Consciousness 319
Conclusion 320
Thematic Chapter Nine
The Participatory Mode 323
Participation: Social and Psychological 324
The Ecosystem and Co-evolution 327
The Observer Effect in the Atomic Dance 329
Conclusion 332
CODA 335
Bibliography 344
The Music of Africans and African Americans (relevant particularly
to Chapter 1) 344
The History, Social Systems, Religions and Aesthetics of African
and Ancient/Pre-lndustrial Societies (relevant particularly to
Chapter 2) 348
Modern Social and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics,
Cybernetics and Philosophy 355
Modern Researchers into Physics, Astronomy, Holograms,
Super Strings and Chaos Theory 360
Person Index 363
Subject Index 370
Acknowledgements 393
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
INHALT (Button Type)
CONTENTS