Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies in the theatre and dance department at Pomona College, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in dance history and theory from the University of California, an MA in anthropology from California State University and an MA in folklore and mythology from UCLA. He is the author of six monographs, including Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), which received the CORD prize for Outstanding Dance Publication, and four edited volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016). He is an award winning dancer and choreographer.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDance and EthnicityDance and NationalismIran: The Shah’s New DanceCroatia: Lado—“Light of Croatian Culture”Spain: Women’s Work—The Sección Femenina and Spanish Folk DanceDominican Republic: The Dictator’s Fancy Dance—Trujillo and MerengueUzbekistan: Old Lamps for New—The Creation of Uzbek “Classical” DanceConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies in the theatre and dance department at Pomona College, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in dance history and theory from the University of California, an MA in anthropology from California State University and an MA in folklore and mythology from UCLA. He is the author of six monographs, including Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), which received the CORD prize for Outstanding Dance Publication, and four edited volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016). He is an award winning dancer and choreographer.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDance and EthnicityDance and NationalismIran: The Shah’s New DanceCroatia: Lado—“Light of Croatian Culture”Spain: Women’s Work—The Sección Femenina and Spanish Folk DanceDominican Republic: The Dictator’s Fancy Dance—Trujillo and MerengueUzbekistan: Old Lamps for New—The Creation of Uzbek “Classical” DanceConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies in the theatre and dance department at Pomona College, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in dance history and theory from the University of California, an MA in anthropology from California State University and an MA in folklore and mythology from UCLA. He is the author of six monographs, including Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), which received the CORD prize for Outstanding Dance Publication, and four edited volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016). He is an award winning dancer and choreographer.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDance and EthnicityDance and NationalismIran: The Shah’s New DanceCroatia: Lado—“Light of Croatian Culture”Spain: Women’s Work—The Sección Femenina and Spanish Folk DanceDominican Republic: The Dictator’s Fancy Dance—Trujillo and MerengueUzbekistan: Old Lamps for New—The Creation of Uzbek “Classical” DanceConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex