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Title:
Dancing communities : performance, difference, and connection in the global city / Judith Hamera.
Author:
Hamera, Judith.
Publication Information:
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Call Number:
GV1595 .H32 2011
Abstract:
Dancing Communities is a landmark volume in dance scholarship, and examines performances that create urban communities by blurring, or reinforcing, complex cultural and ethnic boundaries. It argues that amateur and concert dance practices are laboratories for examining the myriad complex intersections of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and culture. In the five sites examined here, dance creates small and generative worlds: sometimes havens, sometimes hauntopias. The everyday labors and final products of dance in the global city offer intimacy, solidarity, and communal and cultural continuity for performers and audiences.
ISBN:
9780230302334
Series:
Studies in international performance

Studies in international performance.
Physical Description:
xix, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 2007.
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