Dance Circles

Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2013
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-147-1 (ISBN)

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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 In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state funding withdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in cultural diplomacy.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 like the sabar, and the popular dances they grew up with. A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of this multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.

Helene Neveu Kringelbach is a researcher at the African Studies Centre in Oxford. Since October 2011, she has been leading a Leverhulme-funded research project on transnational families across Senegal, France, and the UK. Her research focuses on dance, musical performance, and popular culture in Senegal and in the diaspora. She recently co-edited, Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance (Berghahn Books, 2012).

List of illustrations List of abbreviations Chapter 1. The Shifting Faces of Dance Chapter 2. Cosmopolitan Performing Arts in Twentieth-Century Senegal Chapter 3. A City Across Waters Chapter 4. Drums, Sand and Persons Chapter 5. Images of a Mobile Youth Chapter 6. The Politics of Neo-Traditional Performance Chapter 7. Senegalese 'Contemporary Dance' and Global Arts Circuits Chapter 8. Contemporary Trajectories Chapter 9. Movement, Imagination, and Self-Fashioning Bibliography

Reihe/Serie	Dance & Performance Studies ; 5
Zusatzinfo	17 ills
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78238-147-3 / 1782381473
ISBN-13	978-1-78238-147-1 / 9781782381471
Zustand	Neuware