Cultural memory and popular dance : dancing to remember, dancing to forget / Clare Parfitt, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parfitt, Clare, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Social aspects.

Dance.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 306 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Contents:

Introduction: Dancing with memory

Part I. Pedagogic invocations of Afro-diasporic memory. Tap dance and cultural memory : shuffling with my dancestors

"Salsa con Afro" : remembering and reenacting Afro-Cuban roots in the global Cuban and Latin dance communities

Between creolisation and kinaesthetic transnationalism : Zumba fitness as mimetic parody and ritual re-enactment

Part II. Manipulated memory and reclamation. Parading the past, taming the new : from ragtime to rock and roll

Queer tango - bent history? The late-modern uses and abuses of historical imagery showing men dancing tango with each other

Bomba Cimarrona : hip interactions in the Afro-Ecuadorian Bomba del Chota as a decolonial means to remember

Youthful bodies as mnemonic artifacts : traversing the cultural terrain from traditional to popular dances in post-independent Ghana

Part III. National memories and amnesias. Csángó space and time in the Hungarian Táncház revival

National identity in Philippine folk dance : changing focus from the Cariñosa to tinkling

Archive and memory in Cuban dances : the performance of memory and the dancing body as Archive in the making

Courting disasters ("I don't remember anyway") : the forgetful dancer and the body politic in The sound of music (1965)

Part IV. Im/mediate memories. Feeling with, moving toward : empathetic attunement in dance reconstruction methodology

Mother tongue : dance and memory, an autobiographical excavation

Filmed, felt, and false rhythms : dance videos and an embodying "home" in post-migration

The transmission of nostalgia and (be)longing in popular screendance, or recollecting Damien Chazelle's La la land

Part V. Conclusions. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Cultural memory and popular dance.

ISBN:

9783030710835

3030710831

Publisher Number:

99991307826

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.