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  • Middle Eastern Dance

    Histories, Theories, Performances

    Edited by Anthony Shay ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection is compiled from the first MENACA (Middle East, North African, and Central Asian) Dance and Music Symposium (Pomona College, March 13-16, 2023), and includes a wide variety of readings on Middle Eastern Dance and Music. The writers range from pioneers in the field of Middle Eastern dance and dance studies, from Barbara Sellers-Young, Karin van Nieuwkerk, and Anthony Shay to ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Folk Dance and the Creation of National Identities

    Staging the Folk

    by Anthony Shay ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the folk: the folk in folk dance, the folk in folklore, the folk in folk wisdom. When we see folk dance on the stage or in a tourist setting, which is the way in which many of us experience folk dance, the question arises are these the “real folk” performing their authentic dances? Or are they urban, well trained, carefully-rehearsed professional dancers who make their ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Dance and Authoritarianism

    These Boots Are Made for Dancing

    by Anthony Shay ...
    Everyone who viewed the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can understand the power of dance and mass movement in the service of politics. While examples of such public performances and huge festivals are familiar in Nazi Germany, the former Soviet Union and today's North Korea, this new book addresses the lesser known examples of Spain under Franco, the Dominican Republic, Iran, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • When Men Dance

    Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders

    Edited by Jennifer Fisher, Anthony Shay ...
    When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. Chapters tackle the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives, and are accompanied by fascinating personal histories that complement their themes. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit

    Staging Popular Dances Around the World

    by Anthony Shay ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    People all over the world dance traditional and popular dances that have been staged for purposes of representing specific national and ethnic groups. Anthony Shay suggests these staged dance productions be called “ethno identity dances”, especially to replace the term “folk dance,” which Shay suggests should refer to the traditional dances found in village settings as an organic part of village ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity

    Edited by Anthony Shay, Barbara Sellers-Young ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are 'not right' for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when 19th century ... Read more

    $133.19 USD

  • Assistive Technology Service Delivery

    A Practical Guide for Disability and Employment Professionals

    Edited by Anthony Shay ...
    Assistive Technology Service Delivery: A Practical Guide for Disability and Employment Professionals provides professionals working in vocational rehabilitation with the guidelines and methodologies they need to carry out their daily work at a high standard. Crucially, the techniques and tools described in the book are based on evidence gathered in rigorous research. Chapters cover an introduction ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

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  • The Spectacular State

    Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

    by Laura L. Adams, Laura L. Adams ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Laura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan’s production of national culture in the 1990s. As she explains, after independence the Uzbek government maintained a monopoly over ideology, exploiting the remaining Soviet institutional and cultural legacies. The state expressed national identity through ... Read more

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    The Persistence of Nations

    Edited by Mitchell Young, Eric Zuelow, Andreas Sturm ...
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  • Dancing Fear and Desire

    Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance

    by Stavros Stavrou Karayanni ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance—an investigation that extends to contemporary belly ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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    One Language in the Middle of Nowhere

    by David MacFadyen ...
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