Intercultural communication and creative practice : music, dance, and women's cultural identity / edited by Laura Lengel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lengel, Laura B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Identity--Cross-cultural studies.

Women.

Women in the performing arts--Cross-cultural studies.

Women in the performing arts.

Cognition and culture--Cross-cultural studies.

Cognition and culture.

Communication and culture.

Intercultural communication.

Women--Identity.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 300 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.

Contents:

Intercultural communication and creative practice : resistance, convergence, and transformation / Laura Lengel

Voicing the unspoken : "interculturally" connecting race, gender and nation in women's creative practice / Lliane Loots

Moving contexts : dance and difference in the twenty-first century / Ann Cooper Albright

Creation, recreation, and re-creating identities : performance and interculturality in a global context / Victoria Ann Newsom and Ako Inuzuka

Dance of the red dog : na wahine kumu hula as protectors of Hawaiian culture / Fay Yokomizo Akindes

Rudaali (the crier) : performing the music of mourning / Priya Kapoor

Romanian dirge : women's ritualistic narratives of life and death as cultural constructions of identity in southeastern Europe / Noemi Marin

The high cost of dancing : when the Indian women's movement went after the devadasis / Teresa Hubel

The construction of gender, genre, race, and identity in Barbadian female musicianship / Keri McClean

Vietnamese women performing artists : making a song and dance of patriarchal submission / Ly Hoang VoDoan

Marriage customs as creative practice among Yemeni women / E. Margaret Curtis-Howe

Shifting the performance characteristics of opera and the status quo for women in China / Xiaoyu Xiao and D. Ray Heisey

Corporeality and discipline of the performing body : representations of international ballet companies / Paige P. Edley and Ginger Bihn

Man creates, woman plays : (re)claiming the creative process in ballet and opera / Margaret Lindley

Managing creative practice : an international study of women in arts management / Sharon Foley

Shifting matriarchal traditions to the mainstream : articulating gender, ethnicity, nation, and identity through creative practice / Laura Lengel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0275982408

OCLC:

55106411