Defiant Itineraries

Caribbean Paradigms in American Dance and Film

Lydia Platón Lázaro (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

197 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-47553-4 (ISBN)

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How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren.

Lydia Platón Lázaro teaches at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras.

Preface
1. Introduction: Caribbean Performance: Dancing Transformation in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's "Haitian Excursions"
2. Black Dance, Modern Dance, and the Caribbean: Locating the Work of Katherine Dunham and Maya Deren
3. Island Possessed: Dance Ethnography Performing the Caribbean
4. Maya Deren on Visualizing (Mediating) Vodou
Afterword: Caribbean Dis-Location

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.8.2015
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 197 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-137-47553-6 / 1137475536
ISBN-13	978-1-137-47553-4 / 9781137475534
Zustand	Neuware