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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (Hardcover)
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Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and
at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about
ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, 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 19th
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. More recently, dance performances became a locus of
ethnic disunity in the former Yugoslavia as the Serbs of Bosnia
attended dance concerts but only applauded for the Serbian dances,
presaging the violent disintegration of that failed state. The
Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars
from across the globe in an investigation of what it means to
define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is
performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity.
Newly-commissioned for the volume, the chapters of the book place a
reflective lens on dance and its context to examine the role of
dance as performed embodiment of the historical moments and
associated lived identities. In bringing modern dance and ballet
into the conversation alongside forms more often considered ethnic,
the chapters ask the reader to contemplate previous categories of
folk, ethnic, classical, and modern. From this standpoint, the book
considers how dance maintains, challenges, resists or in some cases
evolves new forms of identity based on prior categories.
Ultimately, the goal of the book is to acknowledge the depth of
research that has been undertaken and to promote continued research
and conceptualization of dance and its role in the creation of
ethnicity. Dance and ethnicity is an increasingly active area of
scholarly inquiry in dance studies and ethnomusicology alike and
the need is great for serious scholarship to shape the contours of
these debates. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity provides
an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research from
leading experts which will set the tone for future scholarly
conversation.
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