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Belly dance around the world : new communities, performance and identity / edited by Caitlin E. McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young.

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Belly dance around the world : new communities, performance and identity / edited by Caitlin E. McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young.
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • McDonald, Caitlin E.
  • Sellers-Young, Barbara.
  • Sellers-Young, Barbara
Description
vi, 217 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Dancer/scholars from around the world have contributed essays on belly dance to this book. They all carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice"--
Subject
  • Belly dance > Social aspects
  • Dance and transnationalism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : The interplay of dance and the imagined possibilities of identity / Barbara Sellers-Young -- What is Baladi about al-Raqs al-Baladi? On the survival of belly dance in Egypt / Noha Roushdy -- Finding "the feeling" : oriental dance, Musiqa a-Gadid, and Tarab / Candace Bordelon -- Performing identity/diasporic encounters / Lynette Harper -- 1970s belly dance and the "how-to" phenomenon : feminism, fitness and orientalism / Virginia Keft-Kennedy -- Dancing with inspiration in New Zealand and Australian dance communities / Marion Cowper and Carolyn Michelle -- Local performance/global connection : American tribal style and its imagined community / Teresa Cutler-Broyles -- The use of nostalgia in tribal fusion dance / Catherine Mary Scheelar -- "I mean, what is a Pakeha Ne Zealander's national dance? We don't have one" : belly dance and transculturation in New Zealand / Brigid Kelly -- Quintessentially English belly dance : in search of an English tradition / Siouxsie Cooper -- Delilah : dancing the earth / Barbara Sellers-Young -- Negotiating female sexuality : Bollywood belly dance, "item girls" and dance classes / Smeeta Mishra -- Digitizing Raqs Sharqi : belly dance in second life / Caitlin E. McDonald.
ISBN
  • 9780786473700 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 0786473703 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013018394
OCLC
829738767
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library