Dancing from Past to Present Nation, Culture, Identities

Name: Dancing from Past to Present Nation, Culture, Identities
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ISBN: 9780299218546

ISBN-10: 0299218546

ISBN-13: 9780299218546

Edition: 2007

Authors: Theresa Jill Buckland

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This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and present and examine how dance and bodily practices are core identity and cultural creators. Reaching beyond the typically Eurocentric view of dance,Dancing from Past to Presentopens a world of debate over the role dance plays in forming and expressing cultural identities around the world.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 1/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792



Preface


Acknowledgments



Dance, History, and Ethnography: Frameworks, Sources, and Identities of Past and Present




Dances and Dancing in Tonga: Anthropological and Historical Discourses




Constructing a Classical Tradition: Javanese Court Dance in Indonesia




Utopia, Eutopia, and E.U.-topia: Performance and Memory in Former Yugoslavia




Qualities of Memory: Two Dances of the Tortugas Fiesta, New Mexico




Dancing through History and Ethnography: Indian Classical Dance and the Performance of the Past




Interpreting the Historical Record: Using Images of Korean Dance for Understanding the Past




Romani Dance Event in Skopje, Macedonia: Research Strategies, Cultural Identities, and Technologies




Being Traditional: Authentic Selves and Others in Researching Late-Twentieth-Century Northwest English Morris Dancing



Selected Further Reading


Contributors


Index