ISBN:
9780199983476
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressourcece.
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
DDC:
306.484
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and in a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, such as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are "not right" for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when nineteenth-century Christian missionaries banned the performance of particular native dance traditions throughout much of Polynesia, and when the Spanish conquistadors and church officials banned sacred Aztec dance rituals. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars from across the globe to investigate what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.001.0001
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