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Erotic Triangles (Paperback)
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In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a
drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there - be
they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen -
breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the rhythm at
village ceremonies, weddings, political rallies, and nightclubs.
The music the men dance to varies from traditional gong ensembles
to the contemporary pop known as dangdut, but they consistently
dance with great enthusiasm. In "Erotic Triangles", Henry Spiller
draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons
behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to
explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities.
Framing the three crucial elements of Sundanese dance - the female
entertainer, the drumming, and men's sense of freedom - as a
triangle, Spiller connects them to a range of other theoretical
perspectives, drawing on thinkers from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
Levi-Strauss, and Freud to Euclid. By granting men permission to
literally perform their masculinity, Spiller ultimately concludes,
dance provides a crucial space for both reinforcing and resisting
orthodox gender ideologies.
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