Full Description
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life - dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.
Contents
Introduction: The Movement of Dancing Cultures
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner
Part I: Dance and globalisation
Chapter 1. Globalization and the Dance Import/Export Business: The Jive Story
Jonathan Skinner
Chapter 2. Ballet culture and the market: a transnational perspective
Helena Wulff
Chapter 3. "We've got this rhythm in our blood": dancing identities in Southern Italy
Karen Lüdtke
Part II: Tourism, Social Transformation and the Dance
Chapter 4. Performance in tourism: transforming the gaze and tourist encounter at Híwus Feasthouse
Linda Scarangella-McNenly
Chapter 5. Movement on the move: performance and dance tourism
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Chapter 6. Dance, visibility and representational self-awareness in an Embera community in Panama
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Part III: Dance, identity and the nation
Chapter 7. Moving shadows of Casamance: dance and regionalism in Senegal
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
Chapter 8. Ballet Folklórico Mexicano: choreographing a national identity in a transnational context
Olga Nájera-Ramírez
Chapter 9. Dance, youth and changing gender identities in Korea
Séverine Carrausse
Chapter 10. Preparation, presentation and power: children's performances in a Balinese dance studio
Jonathan McIntosh
Epilogue: Making culture
Caroline Potter
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
