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Saturday, March 13, 2021

Actualised: Uganda Page by Prof. Dr. James Isabirye

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/uganda/uganda.htm

On this page there were some flash-video-files and they have been replaced by the mp4-format.

Now all can be seen on the page itself.



 

Finally restored: Odissi-Temple Dance from East India

During the first 10 years of the 21st century it was an eLearning option to create webpages with PowerPoint. Colleagues might remember that period. It was convenient to create a PowerPoint-presentation and then to convert it to a webpage in one instance. Unfortunately I used that method with some of the modules for EthnoMusicScape and for my seminars with students at the JLU Gießen. Because after a while with the changes in Windows and the formats of the web-content it was outdated and not useable anymore. Step by step I am restoring those modules now and one of them is this nice introduction to the Odissi-temple dance, which is practiced in the region around Calcutta and Odhisha. My colleague Tamara Kurz has collected information, has studied this dance and together we created this educational environment: