Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit

Staging Popular Dances Around the World

AvAnthony Shay

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Shay investigates the many motives that impelpeople to dance in these staged productions: dancing for sex or dancing sexydances, dancing for fun and recreation, dancing for profit - such as dancingfor tourists - dancing for the nation or to demonstrate ethnic pride.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt:484 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:270
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137593177

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Anthony Shay is Associate Professor ofDance and Cultural Studies at Pomona College, USA. He is a former dancer andchoreographer, having founded and directed the AMAN Folk Ensemble and the AVAZInternational Dance Theatre. He is the author and editor of ten books,including the Oxford Handbook of Danceand Ethnicity (2016) and DangerousLives of Public Performers: Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the IslamicWorld (2014).

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Introduction. Ethno Identity Dance.- Part I. Dancing for Sex.- Chapter One. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.- Chapter Two. Breaking Plates on the Plaka.- Chapter Three. It Takes Two to Tango.- Part II. Dancing for Profit.- Chapter Four. Lovely Hula Hands.- Part III. Dancing for the Nation.- Chapter Five. When Irish Feet are Twinkling.- Chapter Six. Dancing for Ukraine.- Notes.