| Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference, and Connection in the Global City 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Hamera, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230000037 ISBN-13: 9780230000032 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: "Dancing Communities" is a landmark volume in dance scholarship, and examines performances that create urban communities by blurring, or reinforcing, complex cultural and ethnic boundaries. It argues that amateur and concert dance practices are laboratories for examining the myriad complex intersections of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and culture. In the five sites examined here, dance creates small and generative worlds: sometimes havens, sometimes hauntopias. The everyday labors and final products of dance in the global city offer intimacy, solidarity, and communal and cultural continuity for performers and audiences. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - Modern - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 306.484 |
| LCCN: 2006047263 |
| Series: Studies in International Performance |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.7" W x 8.64" (1.02 lbs) 257 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals who may have little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities the book suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work productively together. |