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Author:   Caitlin E. McDonald ,  Barbara Sellers-Young
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786473700

ISBN 10:   0786473703
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 July 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Preface and Acknowledgments      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 al-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 New 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) About the Contributors Index

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Caitlin E. McDonald holds a Ph.D. in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter. She lives in London. Barbara Sellers-Young is the former Dean of the School of Arts, Media, Performance, and Design of York University. She has applied the somatic marker hypothesis to dance performance in numerous articles and lectures, and is the author or editor of seven books on dance theory.

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