caa a22 4500 386309701 CHVBK 20180307111541.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1478814 doi S0149767700010238 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1478814 The Afro-American Transformation of European Set Dances and Dance Suites [Elektronische Daten] It is well acknowledged that the court dances which developed in Europe from the seventeenth century onward spread to the rural areas of Europe and to the new world. What has not been properly recognized is that these dances — the quadrille, the cotillion, the contradance and the like — were taken up by Afro-Americans in North and South America and the West Indies and were modified and adapted to local cultural circumstances. In many cases — especially in the West Indies — they continue to be found today. Yet as similar as these dances may look or sound, their functions are not always necessarily the same as those of their European sources. At one extreme, they were "Africanized” for sacred purposes; at the other, they were re-formed and became the basis of a new world popular culture. An example of the former occurs on the island of Montserrat. There country dance orchestras made up of various combinations of fife, fiddle, concertina or accordion, triangle, and two drums known as the woowoo and the babala (or babla) play for social dancing, but the same music is also used for inducing possession on other occasions, called "jombee dances.” On these latter occasions quadrille dance rhythms are intensified and gradually "Africanized” in order that individuals may become possessed and convey the messages of the spirits. Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1988 Szwed John F. Marks Morton Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 20/1(1988), 29-36 0149-7677 20:1<29 1988 20 DRJ https://doi.org/10.2307/1478814 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1478814 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Szwed John F. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marks Morton NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 20/1(1988), 29-36 0149-7677 20:1<29 1988 20 DRJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge