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| Author | : Paul Spencer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780521315500 |
Presenting seven examples from Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Oceania, this study attempts to further the anthropological understanding of dance's social significance and critical relevance by exploring it as a reflection of social forces.
| Author | : Darlene O'Cadiz |
| Publisher | : Cognella Academic Publishing |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2018-05-16 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781516517299 |
Dance and Cultural Diversity examines the art of dance within the context of different cultures. In doing so, the readings in the text connect dance to academic disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Based on the core belief that dance is much more than a form of entertainment or artistic expression, the text demonstrates that dance also has the power to provoke intellectual thought, promote the communion of people from all social classes and walks of life, and reveal the undeniable commonalities of the human experience, while also serving as a valuable tool for expressing cultural diversity. The study of dance as presented in this text transcends music and movement and becomes a study of humanity. The chapters in Dance and Cultural Diversity explore the essence of dance, dance in American Indian culture, Polynesian culture, African culture, and South American culture, and the African influence on American dance. The book also covers dances of East Asia, India, and Bali, and the healing properties of dance. The chapters explores specific types of dances, historical and political aspects of geographical areas, and the effect that dance has on the members of each community. Dance and Cultural Diversity is appropriate for courses on dance, world traditions, and cultural diversity. It can also be used in cultural anthropology and global society courses.
| Author | : Frances Rust |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis US |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780415175937 |
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Wendy Guess |
| Publisher | : Cognella Academic Publishing |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017-10-16 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781516520497 |
Dance is the quintessential language of the world. It has the power to break down barriers and bring people together. The Culture of Dance: The Power to Create, Connect, and Master serves to capture dance as it relates to the three universal elements of interaction. It provides insight into the ways dance has been used in culture throughout time to inspire creativity, enrich connections, and enhance mastery. The chapters of The Culture of Dance explore many categories of dance, including performance, competitive, political, community-building, commercial, fitness, and therapy. In addition to ballet and modern theater dance, The Culture of Dance also explores the broader perspective of dance as it has existed in cultures throughout history. The variety of authors and viewpoints enhance the wonderful world of dance in so many enriching ways. The Culture of Dance is a healthy, active, and informative journey. It is ideal for courses related to dance, health, fitness, and wellness.
| Author | : Kimerer L. LaMothe |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2015-04-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 023153888X |
Within intellectual paradigms that privilege mind over matter, dance has long appeared as a marginal, derivative, or primitive art. Drawing support from theorists and artists who embrace matter as dynamic and agential, this book offers a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive work in the ongoing evolution of human persons. Why We Dance introduces a philosophy of bodily becoming that posits bodily movement as the source and telos of human life. Within this philosophy, dance appears as an activity that humans evolved to do as the enabling condition of their best bodily becoming. Weaving theoretical reflection with accounts of lived experience, this book positions dance as a catalyst in the development of human consciousness, compassion, ritual proclivity, and ecological adaptability. Aligning with trends in new materialism, affect theory, and feminist philosophy, as well as advances in dance and religious studies, this work reveals the vital role dance can play in reversing the trajectory of ecological self-destruction along which human civilization is racing.
| Author | : Aminata Cairo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2019-10-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1527541169 |
This volume examines the theme of fusion in Caribbean dance from a wide range of perspectives, including its socio-cultural-historical formation. The contributions are drawn from a conference entitled “Caribbean Fusion Dance Works: Rituals of Modern Society”, which focused primarily on the Caribbean as a unique locale. However, chapters on dance fusions in other diasporic locations and the sustainability of dance as an art form are also included here in order to offer a sense of an inevitable and, in some instances, desirable evolution due to the globalizing forces that continue to influence dance.
| Author | : Frances Rust |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2013-10-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134554141 |
This is Volume II of nine in a collection on the Sociology of Culture. Originally published in 1969 this is an analysis of the relationship between the social dance and society in England from the Middle Ages to the 1960s.
| Author | : T. O. Ranger |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2023-04-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520328361 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
| Author | : Hélène Neveu Kringelbach |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2012-10-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0857455761 |
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.
| Author | : William Cleaver Wilkinson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 90 |
| Release | : 1869 |
| Genre | : Dance |
| ISBN | : |
Unlike many other nineteenth-century antidance writers who base their arguments on Scripture, Wilkinson asks that his readers formulate their opinions on reason, conscience, and common sense. In fact, Wilkinson argues that he is not an enemy of dance and declares it to be perfectly innocent. His argument is against the "modern manner of dancing" that requires expensive clothing and the "massing together of a jostling crowd of mute or merely gibbering animals." Thus, he summarizes, dancing does nothing to "enhance the intellectual improvement of society."
