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Belly dance, pilgrimage and identity

Title
Belly dance, pilgrimage and identity / Barbara Sellers-Young.
Author
Sellers-Young, Barbara
Publication
[London?] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

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Description
xi, 170 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
This book examines the globalization of belly dance and the distinct dancing communities that have evolved from it. The history of belly dance has taken place within the global flow of sojourners, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and tourists from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In some cases, the dance is transferred to new communities within the gender normative structure of its original location in North Africa and the Middle East. Belly dance also has become part of popular culture's Orientalist infused discourse. The consequence of this discourse has been a global revision of the solo dances of North Africa and the Middle East into new genres that are still part of the larger belly dance community but are distinct in form and meaning from the dance as practiced within communities in North Africa and the Middle East.
Subject
  • Belly dance > Social aspects
  • Dance and transnationalism
Note
  • Date of publication from Amazon website.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-164) and index.
Contents
Belly dance : transmission in popular culture -- Egypt : place of pilgrimage, place of home -- Dancing the goddess in popular culture : resistance, spirituality and empowerment -- San Francisco and American tribal style -- Fusion, dark fusion and Raqs Gothique -- Belly dance, gender and identity -- Belly dance and the stage : nationality, ethnicity, identity.
Call Number
*MGV 19-588
ISBN
  • 1349956856
  • 9781349956852
OCLC
1047592843
Author
Sellers-Young, Barbara, author.
Title
Belly dance, pilgrimage and identity / Barbara Sellers-Young.
Publisher
[London?] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-164) and index.
Research Call Number
*MGV 19-588
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