Dance circles : movement, morality and self-fashioning in urban Senegal / / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
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| Autore: |
Neveu Kringelbach Hélène <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Dance circles : movement, morality and self-fashioning in urban Senegal / / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 793.319663 |
| Soggetto topico: | Dance - Senegal |
| Dance companies - Senegal | |
| Performing arts - Senegal | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Sengal Social policy |
| Senegal Social life and customs | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction The Shifting Faces of Dance; Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Performing Arts in Twentieth-Century Senegal; Chapter 2 A City across Waters ; Chapter 3 Drums, Sand and Persons; Chapter 4 Images of a Mobile Youth; Chapter 5 The Politics of Neo-Traditional Performance; Chapter 6 Senegalese 'Contemporary Dance' and Global Arts Circuits; Chapter 7 Contemporary Trajectories; Chapter 8 Movement, Imagination and Self-Fashioning; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in diplomacy. This had a profound impact on choreographic production and arts markets throughout Africa. In Senegal, choreographic performers have taken to contemporary dance, while continuing to engage with neo-traditional performance, regional genres |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dance circles |
| ISBN: | 1-78533-038-1 |
| 1-4619-5252-2 | |
| 1-78238-148-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790858503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Dance and performance studies ; ; v. 5.