Dance Circles
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-038-4 (ISBN)
Explores the connections between European colonialism and later influence on the choreographic production and arts markets in urban Senegal
Works to contextualize dance in Senegal within an environment of economic uncertainty and public concerns with morality
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 fundingwithdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in 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.
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies at UCL. She was a researcher at the African Studies Centre in Oxford. Since October 2011, she had been leading a Leverhulme-funded research project on transnational families across Senegal, France and the UK. She the co-editor of Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance (Berghahn Books, 2012).
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List of abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction: 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
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Dance and Performance Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 17 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 349 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78533-038-1 / 1785330381 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78533-038-4 / 9781785330384 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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