Details

Subject(s)

• Dance—Anthropological aspects [Browse]
• Dance—Social aspects [Browse]
• Ethnicity [Browse]

Editor

• Shay, Anthony, 1936- [Browse]
• Sellers-Young, Barbara [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Frequency

Monthly, 2013-2016

Summary note

Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and in a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, such as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are "not right" for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when nineteenth-century Christian missionaries banned the performance of particular native dance traditions throughout much of Polynesia, and when the Spanish conquistadors and church officials banned sacred Aztec dance rituals. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars from across the globe to investigate what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 1, 2016).

Contents

• Being Indian Through Dance: The Issue of Hybridity / Joan L. Erdman, Hema Rajagopalan
• / Aoife McGrath
• Dancing Jews and Jewesses / Rebecca Rossen
• Queering Ethnicity and Shattering the Disco: Is There an Enduring Gay Ethnic Dance? / Darren Blaney
• To Call Dance Japanese / Leonard Pronko, Jonathan M. Hall
• Diasporic Ethnicity, Gender, and Dance / Carol Silverman
• / Paul A. Scolieri
• The Spectacularization of Soviet/Russian Folk Dance: Igor Moiseyev and the Invented Tradition of Staged Folk Dance / Anthony Shay
• Perception, Connections, and Performed Identities in American-Ghanaian Dance Encounters / Jennifer Fisher
• LADO, the State Ensemble of Croatian Folk Dances and Songs: Icon of Croatian Identity / Anthony Shay
• Dancing Angels and Princesses: The Invention of an Ideal Female National Dancer in Twentieth-Century Iran / Ida Meftahi
• Authenticity and Ethnicity: Folk Dance, Americanization, and the Immigrant Body in the Early Twentieth Century / Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
• A Folklorist's View of “Folk” and / Andriy Nahachewsky
• Orientalism and the American Belly Dancer: Multiplicity, Authenticity, Identity / Andrea Deagon
• The (Stereo)Typical Hoofer: Race and Ethnic Authenticity in Rhythm Tap / Kat Ricther
• Black Erased: The Tango de Negros in Spain's Romantic Age / Kathy M. Milazzo
• English-Canadian Ethnocentricity / Allana C. Lindgren
• La Meri: Purveyor of the Dancing Other / Nancy Lee Ruyter
• Choreographing Interculturalism: International Dance Performance at the American Museum of Natural History, 1943-1952 / Rebekah J. Kowal
• Hot Latin Dance: Ethnic Identity and Stereotype / Juliet McMains
• Dancecapes of Dionysus / Christos Papakostas
• Ballet and Whiteness: Will Ballet Forever be the Kingdom of the Pale? / Jennifer Fisher
• Men and the Happiness Dance / Barbara Sellers-Young
• From Powwow to Stomp Dance: Parallel Dance Traditions in Oklahoma / Paula J. Conlon
• Beyond Colonization, Commodification, and Reclamation / Christine Emi Chan
• Crossing the Seas of Southeast Asia: Indigenous, Islam, Diasporic and Performances of Women's Igal / Diyah Larasati.

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Other title(s)

Dance and ethnicity

ISBN

• 9780190493936
• 0190493933
• 9780199983476
• 019998347X

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