Defiant Itineraries - Lydia Platón Lázaro

Defiant Itineraries

Caribbean Paradigms in American Dance and Film
Buch | Hardcover
197 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-47553-4 (ISBN)
53,45 inkl. MwSt
How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren.

Lydia Platón Lázaro teaches at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras.

Preface
1. Introduction: Caribbean Performance: Dancing Transformation in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's "Haitian Excursions"
2. Black Dance, Modern Dance, and the Caribbean: Locating the Work of Katherine Dunham and Maya Deren
3. Island Possessed: Dance Ethnography Performing the Caribbean
4. Maya Deren on Visualizing (Mediating) Vodou
Afterword: Caribbean Dis-Location

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.8.2015
Zusatzinfo XIV, 197 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-137-47553-6 / 1137475536
ISBN-13 978-1-137-47553-4 / 9781137475534
Zustand Neuware
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