The Tribal Bible, Exploring The Phenomenon That Is American Tribal Style Bellydance

The Tribal Bible, Exploring The Phenomenon That Is American Tribal Style Bellydance
Kajira Djoumahna (Author)
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The definitive resource for the dance style known as American Tribal Style Bellydance. History, development, interviews, costuming descriptions and construction tips, jewelry, history of textiles and ethnic jewelry used for this dance form, movement breakdowns including fast and slow steps, use of props, staging and performance techniques, music, finger cymbal and kashiklar instruction, how the dance relates to the Romany culture, dance as ritual, quotes from practitioners from around the world, resource directory, more. Over 300 photos, about one third in color. Full color collage cover, foreword by Elizabeth Artemis Mourat.

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• Published on: 2012-11-14
• Released on: 2012-11-14
• Format: Kindle eBook
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Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts

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Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts
by Brenda D. Gottschild

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This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to correct and balance the record, investigating the Africanist presence as a conditioning factor in shaping American performance, onstage and in everyday life. She examines the Africanist presence in American dance forms particularly in George Balanchine's Americanized style of ballet, (post)modern dance, and blackface minstrelsy. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.

• Rank: #313790 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .51" w x 5.98" l, .75 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion

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Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion
by Susan Manning

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At the New School for Social Research in 1931, the dance critic for the New York Times announced the arrival of modern dance, touting the Aserious art” of such dancers as Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Doris Humphrey. Across town, Hemsley Winfield and Edna Guy were staging what they called AThe First Negro Dance Recital in America,” which Dance Magazine proclaimed Athe beginnings of great and important choreographic creations.” Yet never have the two parallel traditions converged in the annals of American dance in the twentieth century. Modern Dance, Negro Dance is the first book to bring together these two vibrant strains of American dance in the modern era. Susan Manning traces the paths of modern dance and Negro dance from their beginnings in the Depression to their ultimate transformations in the postwar years, from Helen Tamiris’s and Ted Shawn’s suites of Negro Spirituals to concerts sponsored by the Workers Dance League, from Graham’s American Document to the debuts of Katherine Dunham and Pearl Primus, from José Limón’s 1954 work The Traitor to Merce Cunningham’s 1958 dances Summerspace and Antic Meet, to Ailey’s 1960 masterpiece Revelations. Through photographs and reviews, documentary film and oral history, Manning intricately and inextricably links the two historically divided traditions. The result is a unique view of American dance history across the divisions of black and white, radical and liberal, gay and straight, performer and spectator, and into the multiple, interdependent meanings of bodies in motion. Susan Manning is associate professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman, winner of the 1994 de la Torre Bueno Prize for the year’s most important contribution to dance studies.

• Rank: #83172 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x .71" w x 7.01" l, 1.16 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

The Hula

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The Hula
Jerry Hopkins (Author)
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Hawai'i in the 1970s was a vibrant time; a Hawaiian Renaissance was being led, in part, by the renewed popularity of and interest in hula as an integral part of Hawaiian culture. The Hula was originally written by Jerry Hopkins in 1978, with assistance from Rebecca Kamili'ia Erikson, and it has been a significant narrative on the dance form ever since. Hopkins's book was the first to offer readers a comprehensive history of hula aimed at a general audience.

Three decades later, The Hula has not been superseded. This reissue of The Hula has been updated and edited by Hawaiian music and hula expert Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman and enhanced by poignant photographs and graphics, makes an overview of hula once again available to new generations of hula dancers, cultural enthusiasts and fans alike.

This revised edition incorporates the same graphics as the original, but has been completely redesigned.

• Rank: #794454 in Books
• Published on: 2011-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.96" h x 8.39" w x .91" l, 2.35 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 200 pages

Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity

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Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity
by Susanna Sloat
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Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk is an unprecedented overview of the dances from each of this region’s major islands and the complex, fused, and layered cultures that gave birth to them. The authors in this collection, from distinguished cultural leaders to highly innovative choreographers, reveal how dance shapes personal, communal, and national identity. They also show how Caribbean rhythms, dances, fragments of movement, and even attitudes toward movement reach beyond the islands and through the extensive West Indian diaspora communities in North America, Latin America, and Europe to be embraced by the world at large.

• Rank: #1323033 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.22" w x 5.98" l, 1.72 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages

Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love

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Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love
Anne Thomas Soffee (Author)
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This hilariously uplifting memoir follows an Arab American woman's merry life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo-artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Feeling lost and heartbroken, Anne Thomas Soffee moves back home to Richmond, Virginia. Against the wishes of her extended family and friends, she enrolls in a belly dancing class hoping to heal her heart and reconnect with her Lebanese roots. Her life is never the same after she discovers the riotous world of American belly dancing, a warm and welcoming subculture where younger and thinner are not necessarily better. Wildly funny adventures ensue as a newly confident Soffee embarks on romantic adventures with a domineering sheik and a beautiful Lebanese boy-next-door. Among the zils (finger cymbals) and thrills of attending classes and performing in moose lodges and county fairs, Soffee is surprised to find happiness and true love along the way.

• Rank: #885482 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.46" h x .75" w x 5.51" l, .66 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism & Performance (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)

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Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism & Performance (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)
by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
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Embodying Mexico examines two performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the Old Men and Night of the Dead of Lake Pátzcuaro--in numerous manifestations, including film, theater, tourist guides, advertisements, and souvenirs. Covering a ninety-year period from the postrevolutionary era to the present day, Hellier-Tinoco's analysis is thoroughly grounded in Mexican politics and history, and simultaneously incorporates choreographic, musicological, and dramaturgical analysis.

Exploring multiple contexts in Mexico, the USA, and Europe, Embodying Mexico expands and enriches our understanding of complex processes of creating national icons, performance repertoires, and tourist attractions, drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic, archival, and participatory experience. An extensive companion website illustrates the author's arguments through audio and video.

• Rank: #93893 in Books
• Published on: 2011-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 6.00" w x 9.10" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

The Black Tradition in American Dance

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The Black Tradition in American Dance
by Richard A. Long
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200+ full-color illus. 8 1/2 x 11 1/4.

• Rank: #112856 in Books
• Published on: 1995-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Irish Dancing (Collins Pocket Reference)

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Irish Dancing (Collins Pocket Reference)
by Tom Quinn
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This guide comprises instructions to over 150 Irish dances, bringing together for the first time in a single volume, ceili, set, and two-handed country dances. It includes all dances commonly featured in classes, summer schools and feiseanna.

• Rank: #142177 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia (Difference Incorporated)

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The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia (Difference Incorporated)
by Rachmi Diyah Larasati

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Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, artists, and dancers—were killed, arrested, or disappeared as Suharto established a virtual dictatorship that ruled for the next thirty years.

In The Dance That Makes You Vanish, an examination of the relationship between female dancers and the Indonesian state since 1965, Rachmi Diyah Larasati elucidates the Suharto regime’s dual-edged strategy: persecuting and killing performers perceived as communist or left leaning while simultaneously producing and deploying “replicas”—new bodies trained to standardize and unify the “unruly” movements and voices of those vanished—as idealized representatives of Indonesia’s cultural elegance and composure in bowing to autocratic rule. Analyzing this history, Larasati shows how the Suharto regime’s obsessive attempts to control and harness Indonesian dance for its own political ends have functioned as both smoke screen and smoke signal, inadvertently drawing attention to the site of state violence and criminality by constantly pointing out the “perfection” of the mask that covers it.

Reflecting on her own experiences as an Indonesian national troupe dancer from a family of persecuted female dancers and activists, Larasati brings to life a powerful, multifaceted investigation of the pervasive use of culture as a vehicle for state repression and the global mass-marketing of national identity.

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• Published on: 2013-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (New Anthropologies of Europe)

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Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (New Anthropologies of Europe)
by Gerald W. Creed
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Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism—and the current state of postsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era. Elaborately costumed dancers go from house to house demanding sustenance and bestowing blessings. Through the analysis of these rites, Creed critiques key themes in postsocialist studies, including understandings of civil society and democracy, gender and sexuality, autonomy and community, and ethnicity and nationalism. He argues that these events reveal indigenous cultural resources that could have been used both practically and intellectually to ease the postsocialist reconstruction of Bulgarian society, but were not.

• Rank: #80646 in Books
• Published on: 2011-01-24
• Released on: 2011-01-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x .55" w x 6.14" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

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Backstage Mandalay: Burmese Street Performance

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Backstage Mandalay: Burmese Street Performance
by Daniel Ehrlich

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This book provides a glimpse under the curtain into the netherworld of the ancient Burmese performing arts. Backstage Mandalay reveals the private rituals of classical Burmese performers as they prepare for all-night festivals in upper Burma.

• Rank: #1350581 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 110 pages

African American Dance: An Illustrated History

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African American Dance: An Illustrated History
by Barbara S. Glass
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Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinating elements of African life manifested themselves richly in the New World, and among the most lasting and influential of these was the art of African dance. This generously illustrated history follows the dynamics of African dance forms throughout each generation. Early chapters discuss the African continent and the heritage of African American dance; the discrimination and marginalization of African Americans and the fortitude with which their dance forms survived; and black dance in the slavery era and later in the nineteenth century. Remaining chapters outline ten major characteristics that have consistently marked African American dance, and describe the various styles of black vernacular dance that became popular in America. The book concludes with a discussion of African dance at the end of the twentieth century and its important role in the flowering of African American arts.

• Rank: #176299 in Books
• Published on: 2012-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 7.01" w x .91" l, 1.30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 319 pages

Dancing with Kali

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Dancing with Kali
by Lalita Das

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This saga of love and retribution resonates with the ethos of karma; Kali's dance of destruction and creation.

• Rank: #1870314 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.82" h x 5.87" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Middle Eastern Dance (World of Dance)

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Middle Eastern Dance (World of Dance)
by Penni Al Zayer, Y. Villacampa
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• Rank: #2302268 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 5.75" w x .0" l, .54 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 124 pages

The Northern Traditional Dancer

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The Northern Traditional Dancer
by C. Scott Evans, J. Rex Reddick
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This book on the unique and dynamic art form of powwow dancing focuses on the Northern Traditional dance of the Plains Indians, in particular the Lakota Sioux. The history of this dance is traced from its origin to the styles of today. The black and white photographs of early dancers and beautiful full color photographs of modern dancers compliment the text. Testimonials from past and present dancers help give the reader an understanding of the philosophy and mind set of the dancers. Includes easy to follow directions on how to create the basic costumes and accessories for each dance.

• Rank: #183709 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 11.02" h x .16" w x 8.46" l, .40 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 50 pages

Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (Latin America Otherwise)

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Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (Latin America Otherwise)
by Celeste Fraser Delgado, Jose Esteban Munoz

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The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in Latin/o America, Everynight Life translates the motion of bodies into speech, and the gestures of dance into a provocative socio-political grammar.
This anthology looks at many modes of dance—including salsa, merengue, cumbia, rumba, mambo, tango, samba, and norteño—as models for the interplay of cultural memory and regional conflict. Barbara Browning’s essay on capoeira, for instance, demonstrates how dance has been used as a literal form of resistance, while José Piedra explores the meanings conveyed by women of color dancing the rumba. Pieces such as Gustavo Perez Fírmat’s "I Came, I Saw, I Conga’d" and Jorge Salessi’s "Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens" illustrate the lively scope of this volume’s subject matter.

Contributors. Barbara Browning, Celeste Fraser Delgado, Jane C. Desmond, Mayra Santos Febres, Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, Josh Kun, Ana M. López, José Esteban Muñoz, José Piedra, Gustavo Perez Fírmat, Augusto C. Puleo, David Román, Jorge Salessi, Alberto Sandoval

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• Published on: 1997-06-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.98" h x 1.06" w x 9.02" l, 1.38 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 376 pages

Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces

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Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces
by SanSan Kwan

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In Kinesthetic City, author SanSan Kwan explores the contentious nature of Chineseness in diaspora through the lens of moving bodies as they relate to place, time, and identity. She locates her study in five Chinese urban sites--Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New York's Chinatown, and the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles--at momentous historical turning points to parse out key similarities and differences in the construction of Chineseness. The moving bodies she considers are not only those in performances by some of the most well-known Chinese dance companies in these cities, but also her own as she navigates urban Chinese spaces.

By focusing primarily on kinesthesia--the body's awareness of motion--to gather information rather than more traditional modes of sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste, she highlights the importance of motion in the determination of space. In examining in these specific places at these precise historical moments, Kwan illuminates how moving bodies contribute to the production of those places and those moments. For Kwan, Chinese communities in diaspora provide particularly salient examples of how when and where our bodies are help to determine who we are. Whether engaged in otherwise unremarkable walking or in highly choreographed acts of political protest, human movement exists in dialogue with the kinesthetic of these city spaces, helping Chinese communities make meaning of themselves away from mainland China.

As a whole, Kinesthetic City offers dance studies ways to extend movement analysis to study not only concert, folk or social dance, but also quotidian movement and urban flow.

• Rank: #622197 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance (Folklore and Society)

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Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance (Folklore and Society)
by Jacqui Malone
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This award-winning cultural history of black dance explores the meaning of dance in African-American life and the connections among music, song, and dance in African-American culture.

• Rank: #461126 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.98" h x .98" w x 5.98" l, 1.12 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages