Dancing Cultures (eBook)

Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Roehampton. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (Berghahn Books 2011).

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