The Oxford handbook of dance and ethnicity / edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shay, Anthony, 1936- editor.

Sellers-Young, Barbara, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in music.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Dance.

Dance--Social aspects.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Monthly, 2013-2016

Other Title:

Dance and ethnicity

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013-2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and in a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, such as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are "not right" for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when nineteenth-century Christian missionaries banned the performance of particular native dance traditions throughout much of Polynesia, and when the Spanish conquistadors and church officials banned sacred Aztec dance rituals. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars from across the globe to investigate what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity.

Contents:

Being Indian Through Dance: The Issue of Hybridity / Joan L. Erdman, Hema Rajagopalan

/ Aoife McGrath

Dancing Jews and Jewesses / Rebecca Rossen

Queering Ethnicity and Shattering the Disco: Is There an Enduring Gay Ethnic Dance? / Darren Blaney

To Call Dance Japanese / Leonard Pronko, Jonathan M. Hall

Diasporic Ethnicity, Gender, and Dance / Carol Silverman

/ Paul A. Scolieri

The Spectacularization of Soviet/Russian Folk Dance: Igor Moiseyev and the Invented Tradition of Staged Folk Dance / Anthony Shay

Perception, Connections, and Performed Identities in American-Ghanaian Dance Encounters / Jennifer Fisher

LADO, the State Ensemble of Croatian Folk Dances and Songs: Icon of Croatian Identity / Anthony Shay

Dancing Angels and Princesses: The Invention of an Ideal Female National Dancer in Twentieth-Century Iran / Ida Meftahi

Authenticity and Ethnicity: Folk Dance, Americanization, and the Immigrant Body in the Early Twentieth Century / Jessica Ray Herzogenrath

A Folklorist's View of "Folk" and / Andriy Nahachewsky

Orientalism and the American Belly Dancer: Multiplicity, Authenticity, Identity / Andrea Deagon

The (Stereo)Typical Hoofer: Race and Ethnic Authenticity in Rhythm Tap / Kat Ricther

Black Erased: The Tango de Negros in Spain's Romantic Age / Kathy M. Milazzo

English-Canadian Ethnocentricity / Allana C. Lindgren

La Meri: Purveyor of the Dancing Other / Nancy Lee Ruyter

Choreographing Interculturalism: International Dance Performance at the American Museum of Natural History, 1943-1952 / Rebekah J. Kowal

Hot Latin Dance: Ethnic Identity and Stereotype / Juliet McMains

Dancecapes of Dionysus / Christos Papakostas

Ballet and Whiteness: Will Ballet Forever be the Kingdom of the Pale? / Jennifer Fisher

Men and the Happiness Dance / Barbara Sellers-Young

From Powwow to Stomp Dance: Parallel Dance Traditions in Oklahoma / Paula J. Conlon

Beyond Colonization, Commodification, and Reclamation / Christine Emi Chan

Crossing the Seas of Southeast Asia: Indigenous, Islam, Diasporic and Performances of Women's Igal / Diyah Larasati.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 1, 2016).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780199983476

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Restricted for use by site license.