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Dance circles : movement, morality and self-fashioning in urban Senegal / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène, 1969-
- Series:
- Dance and performance studies ; v. 5.
- Dance and performance studies ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--Senegal.
- Dance.
- Dance companies--Senegal.
- Dance companies.
- Performing arts--Senegal.
- Performing arts.
- Sengal--Social policy.
- Sengal.
- Senegal--Social life and customs.
- Senegal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in diplomacy. This had a profound impact on choreographic production and arts markets throughout Africa. In Senegal, choreographic performers have taken to contemporary dance, while continuing to engage with neo-traditional performance, regional genres
- Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction The Shifting Faces of Dance; Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Performing Arts in Twentieth-Century Senegal; Chapter 2 A City across Waters ; Chapter 3 Drums, Sand and Persons; Chapter 4 Images of a Mobile Youth; Chapter 5 The Politics of Neo-Traditional Performance; Chapter 6 Senegalese 'Contemporary Dance' and Global Arts Circuits; Chapter 7 Contemporary Trajectories; Chapter 8 Movement, Imagination and Self-Fashioning; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 16, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781785330384
- 1785330381
- 9781461952527
- 1461952522
- 9781782381488
- 1782381481
- OCLC:
- 863670845
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