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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815861403321

Titolo

Dancing from past to present : nation, culture, identities / / edited by Theresa Jill Buckland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006

ISBN

0-299-21853-8

9786612270215

1-282-27021-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Studies in dance history

Altri autori (Persone)

BucklandTheresa

Disciplina

793.3109

Soggetti

Dance - History

Dance - Anthropological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dance, history, and ethnography : frameworks, sources, and identities of past and present / Theresa Jill Buckland -- Dances and dancing in Tonga : anthropological and historical discourses / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Constructing a classical tradition : Javanese court dance in Indonesia / Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Utopia, Eutopia, and E.U.-topia : performance and memory in former Yugoslavia / Lynn D. Maners -- Qualities of memory : two dances of the Tortugas Fiesta, New Mexico / Deidre Sklar -- Dancing through history and ethnography : Indian classical dance and the performance of the past / Janet O'Shea -- Interpreting the historical record : using images of Korean dance for understanding the past / Judy Van Zile -- Romani dance event in Skopje, Macedonia : research strategies, cultural identities, and technologies / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- Being traditional : authentic selves and others in researching late-twentieth-century northwest English Morris dancing / Theresa Jill Buckland.

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and present and examine how dance and bodily



practices are core identity and cultural creators. Reaching beyond the typically Eurocentric view of dance, Dancing from Past to Present opens a world of debate over the role dance plays in forming and expressing cultural identities around the world.