- 368 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
From healing, fertility, and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised second edition of World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms and their cultures, which are practiced around the world.
This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts taking in India, Bali, Java, Cambodia, China, Japan, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Africa, TĂźrkiye, Spain, Native America, South America, and the Caribbean, with this second edition adding new chapters on the Pacific Islands, Southern Africa, France, and Cuba.
Each chapter covers a certain region's distinctive dances, pinpoints key issues and trends from the form's development to its modern iteration, and offers a wealth of study features including:
⢠Spotlights zooming in on key details of a dance form's cultural, historical, and religious contexts
⢠Explorationsâfirst-hand descriptions by famous dancers and ethnographers, excerpts from anthropological fieldwork, or historical writings on the form
⢠Think Aboutâprovocations to encourage critical analysis of dance forms and the ways in which they're understood
⢠Discussion Questionsâstarting points for group work, classroom seminars, or individual study.
Offering a comprehensive overview of each dance form covered with over 100 full color photos, World Dance Cultures is an essential introductory resource for students and instructors alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- An introduction to World Dance Cultures
- 1 India: Devotion, dance, mythology
- 2 Indonesia: Bali and Java: From temple, to village, to court
- 3 Cambodia and China: Dance as a political tool
- 4 Japanese noh, kabuki, and butoh: Entertaining samurai, merchants, and rebels
- 5 Hawai'i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea: Keepers of culture
- 6 Africa: Fertility festivals, death ceremonies, ancestor worship, and healing rituals
- 7 North Africa, TĂźrkiye, and Spain: Healing, worship, and expression
- 8 Native America, the Caribbean, South America: Resistance, spirituality, spectacle
- 9 Europe: Presenting the âOtherâ in French Renaissance and Baroque ballet de cour
- Glossary
- Index