Dancing Cultures

Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jonathan Skinner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2012
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-575-8 (ISBN)

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Dance is more than an aesthetic of life, dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of transnational ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama or Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words.

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. Helene Neveu Kringelbach is an Oxford Diaspora Programme Researcher at the University of Oxford. Her current research interests include dance and musical theatre in West Africa and beyond, contemporary choreography in Africa and transnational families across Senegal and Europe.
Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (Berghahn Books 2011).

Helene Neveu Kringelbach is an Oxford Diaspora Programme Researcher at the University of Oxford. Her current research interests include dance and musical theatre in West Africa and beyond, contemporary choreography in Africa, and transnational families across Senegal and Europe. Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (Berghahn Books 2011).

Introduction: The Movement of Dancing Cultures Helene Neveu Kringelbach (University of Oxford) and Jonathan Skinner (Queen's University Belfast) Part I: Dance and globalisation Chapter 1. Globalization and the Dance Import/Export Business: The Jive Story Jonathan Skinner (Queen's University Belfast) Chapter 2. Ballet culture and the market: a transnational perspective Helena Wulff (University of Stockholm) Chapter 3. "We've got this rhythm in our blood": dancing identities in Southern Italy Karen Ludtke (Independent Scholar) 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 (McMaster University) Chapter 5. Movement on the move: performance and dance tourism Felicia Hughes-Freeland (Swansea University) Chapter 6. Dance, visibility and representational self-awareness in an Embera community in Panama Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Bristol) Part III: Dance, identity and the nation Chapter 7. Moving shadows of Casamance: dance and regionalism in Senegal Helene Neveu Kringelbach (University of Oxford) Chapter 8. Ballet Folklorico Mexicano: choreographing a national identity in a transnational context Olga Najera-Ramirez (University of California, Santa Cruz) Chapter 9. Dance, youth and changing gender identities in Korea Severine Carrausse (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Chapter 10. Preparation, presentation and power: children's performances in a Balinese dance studio Jonathan McIntosh (University of Western Australia) Epilogue: Making culture Caroline Potter (University of Oxford) Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.2012
Reihe/Serie	Dance and Performance Studies ; 4
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-85745-575-3 / 0857455753
ISBN-13	978-0-85745-575-8 / 9780857455758
Zustand	Neuware