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Dancing the New World - Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest (Hardcover)
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Dancing the New World - Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest (Hardcover)
Series: Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
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Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014
Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society
for Theatre Research, 2014 de la Torre Bueno (R) Special Citation,
Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013 From Christopher Columbus
to "first anthropologist" Friar Bernardino de Sahagun, fifteenth-
and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics,
scientists, and travelers wrote about the "Indian" dances they
encountered throughout the New World. This was especially true of
Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented native
dances in an attempt to identify and eradicate the "idolatrous"
behaviors of the Aztec, the largest indigenous empire in
Mesoamerica at the time of its European discovery. Dancing the New
World traces the transformation of the Aztec empire into a Spanish
colony through written and visual representations of dance in
colonial discourse-the vast constellation of chronicles, histories,
letters, and travel books by Europeans in and about the New World.
Scolieri analyzes how the chroniclers used the Indian dancing body
to represent their own experiences of wonder and terror in the New
World, as well as to justify, lament, and/or deny their role in its
political, spiritual, and physical conquest. He also reveals that
Spaniards and Aztecs shared an understanding that dance played an
important role in the formation, maintenance, and representation of
imperial power, and describes how Spaniards compelled Indians to
perform dances that dramatized their own conquest, thereby
transforming them into colonial subjects. Scolieri's pathfinding
analysis of the vast colonial "dance archive" conclusively
demonstrates that dance played a crucial role in one of the
defining moments in modern history-the European colonization of the
Americas.
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