ISBN:
9780190493936
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (723 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Handbooks Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/84
Keywords:
Ethnicity
;
Dance-Anthropological aspects
;
Dance-Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars from across the globe in an investigation of what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity.
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Dance and Ethnicity: Introduction -- Part I: Choreographing Ethnicity: Dance in the Construction of Ethnic Identity -- 1. "And I Make My Own": Class Performance, Black Urban Identity, and Depression-Era Harlem's Physical Culture -- 2 "Do You Want to See My Hornpipe?" Creativity and Irish Step Dance in the Work of Jean Butler and Colin Dunne -- 3. Dancing Jews and Jewesses: Jewishness, Ethnicity, and Exoticism in American Dance -- 4. Queering Ethnicity and Shattering the Disco: Is There an Enduring Gay Ethnic Dance? -- 5. Dancing Multiple Identities: Preserving and Revitalizing Dances of the Skolt Sámi -- 6. To Call Dance Japanese: Nihon Buyô as Ethnic Dance -- 7. Diasporic Ethnicity, Gender, and Dance: Muslim Macedonian Roma in New York -- Part II: Choreographing the Nation: Dance as a Display of Ethnicity and Nationalism -- 8. "An Interesting Experiment in Eugenics": Ted Shawn, American Dance, and the Discourses of Sex, Race, and Ethnicity -- 9. Dancing Angels and Princesses: The Invention of an Ideal Female National Dancer in Twentieth-Century Iran -- 10. The Spectacularization of Soviet/Russian Folk Dance: Igor Moiseyev and the Invented Tradition of Staged Folk Dance -- 11. LADO, the State Ensemble of Croatian Folk Dances and Songs: Icon of Croatian Identity -- 12. Authenticity and Ethnicity: Folk Dance, Americanization, and the Immigrant Body in the Early Twentieth Century -- 13. A Folklorist's View of "Folk" and "Ethnic" Dance: Three Ukrainian Examples -- 14. The Jarabe Tapatío: Imagining Race, Nation, Class, and Gender in 1920s Mexico -- 15. Perception, Connections, and Performed Identities in American Ghanaian Dance Encounters -- Part III: Performing Ethnicity: Creating New Identities through the Dances of the "Other".
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