Festivals & Ritual
Music that is not for listening to
A great deal of the world’s music exists to accompany work, ritual or dance, and treating it as concert material misses what it is doing.
Topic
performance
Every Kohopoho article tagged performance — 3 pieces across 2 sections.
Language & Words
How oral poets remember thousands of lines
Performers in oral traditions recite epics far longer than anyone could memorise word for word. The explanation, worked out through fieldwork in the twentieth century, changed how scholars read ancient poetry.
Festivals & Ritual
The mask is not a disguise
In masquerade traditions across the world, the masked figure is generally not understood as a person pretending. Something else is present, and the distinction matters.