Dancing Cultures -

Dancing Cultures

Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Buch | Hardcover
236 Seiten
2012
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-575-8 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of transnational ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama or Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words.
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies at UCL. She was a researcher at the African Studies Centre in Oxford. Her current research interests include dance and musical theatre in West Africa and beyond, contemporary choreography in Africa and transnational families across Senegal and Europe.

Introduction: The Movement of Dancing Cultures

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner



Part I: Dance and globalisation



Chapter 1. Globalization and the Dance Import/Export Business: The Jive Story

Jonathan Skinner



Chapter 2. Ballet culture and the market: a transnational perspective

Helena Wulff



Chapter 3.  “We’ve got this rhythm in our blood”:  dancing identities in Southern Italy 

Karen Lüdtke



Part II: Tourism, Social Transformation and the Dance



Chapter 4. Performance in tourism: transforming the gaze and tourist encounter at Híwus Feasthouse

Linda Scarangella-McNenly



Chapter 5. Movement on the move: performance and dance tourism

Felicia Hughes-Freeland



Chapter 6. Dance, visibility and representational self-awareness in an Embera community in Panama

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos



Part III: Dance, identity and the nation



Chapter 7. Moving shadows of Casamance: dance and regionalism in Senegal

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach



Chapter 8. Ballet Folklórico Mexicano: choreographing a national identity in a transnational context

Olga Nájera-Ramírez



Chapter 9. Dance, youth and changing gender identities in Korea

Séverine Carrausse



Chapter 10. Preparation, presentation and power: children’s performances in a Balinese dance studio

Jonathan McIntosh



Epilogue: Making culture

Caroline Potter                                                                      



Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index           

Reihe/Serie Dance and Performance Studies
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-85745-575-3 / 0857455753
ISBN-13 978-0-85745-575-8 / 9780857455758
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