Before They Were Belly Dancers
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9433-0 (ISBN)
Kathleen W. Fraser has had a varied professional career encompassing magazine publishing, foreign development, human rights education, employment equity, and the teaching of essay writing and dance history at the university level. Her dance-related writing has appeared in Dance Research Journal (reviews), Impulse magazine, the UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology, and Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories (articles), and she has presented at professional conferences held by Dance History Scholars, Conference on Research in Dance, and the International Bellydance Conferences of Canada. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Section One: Background
1. On Writing This Book
2. Selected Egyptian History—the Study Period
3. Writers and Painters in Egypt from 1760 to 1870
Section Two: Setting the Stage
4. A Name for the Dance and a Name for the Dancer
5. The Low Reputation of Female Entertainers
6. The Geography of Going to the Show
Section Three: Going to the Show—Professionals at Work
7. The Corporation of Female Singers—the Chanteuses
8. Identifying the Raqqâsin, Corporation 200
9. Identifying the Ghawâzî, Corporation 192
10. Male Performers—Dancers and Musicians
Section Four: The Lives of Female Entertainers
11. Relationships with Various Groups in Egyptian Society
12. Professional Relationships with the Audience
13. Training
14. Economic Position of Female Entertainers
Section Five: Biographies
15. Thirty-One Female Dancers and One Male
Section Six: Gossip, Hearsay, Rumors and Myths
16. The Missing ‘Awâlim
17. The Massacre of “The Four Hundred”
18. Banning the Dance in Muhammad Ali’s Egypt
19. Myths of Origins of Female Dancers and Singers
Section Seven: Building the Aesthetic of Performance
20. A Costume Benchmark Set by Edward Lane
21. The Musicianship of Dancers
22. The Aesthetic of Dance Movements
Section Eight: Choreography and Performance
23. Six Choreographic Elements Basic to the Dance
24. Extending the Definition of Choreography
25. Three Identifiable Dances
26. Accessory Dances
Epilogue
Appendix One: Biographical Facts About Selected 18th–and Early 19th-Century Travel Writers and Artists
Appendix Two: Travelers’ Terms for Female Entertainers: Selected Passages by Date of Travel
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Zusatzinfo | 27 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index |
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Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 408 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7864-9433-6 / 0786494336 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-9433-0 / 9780786494330 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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