Dancing cultures : globalization, tourism and identity in the anthropology of dance

Author(s)

• Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène
• Skinner, Jonathan

Bibliographic Information

Dancing cultures : globalization, tourism and identity in the anthropology of dance

edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner

（Dance and performance studies, v. 4）

Berghahn Books, 2014

1st pbk. ed

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Dance is more than an aesthetic of life - dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Movement of Dancing Cultures Helene 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 Ludtke Part II: Tourism, Social Transformation and the Dance Chapter 4. Performance in tourism: transforming the gaze and tourist encounter at Hiwus 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 Helene Neveu Kringelbach Chapter 8. Ballet Folklorico Mexicano: choreographing a national identity in a transnational context Olga Najera-Ramirez Chapter 9. Dance, youth and changing gender identities in Korea Severine 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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB17656052
• ISBN:
  • 9781782385226
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 228 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 306.4846
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Dance -- Anthropological aspects
  • LCSH : Dance -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Tourism -- Social aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB03252066