Dancing Cultures

Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-575-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 504 g

Reihe: Dance and Performance Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu

Skinner, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Gesellschaftstänze, Volkstänze

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Movement of Dancing Cultures

Hélène 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 Lüdtke

Part II: Tourism, Social Transformation and the Dance

Chapter 4.Performance in tourism: transforming the gaze and tourist encounter at Híwus 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

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach

Chapter 8.Ballet Folklórico Mexicano: choreographing a national identity in a transnational context

Olga Nájera-Ramírez

Chapter 9.Dance, youth and changing gender identities in Korea

Séverine 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

Über Autor(innen)

Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies at UCL. She was a researcher at the African Studies Centre in 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.

Skinner, Jonathan
Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Roehampton. 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).

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies at UCL. She was a researcher at the African Studies Centre in 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.