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Lydia Platón Lázaro - Defiant Itineraries: Caribbean Paradigms in American Dance and Film - 9781137475534 - V9781137475534
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Defiant Itineraries: Caribbean Paradigms in American Dance and Film

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Description for Defiant Itineraries: Caribbean Paradigms in American Dance and Film Hardcover. How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; APF; ASD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
197
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137475534
SKU
V9781137475534
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Lydia Platón Lázaro
Lydia Platón Lázaro teaches at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras.

Reviews for Defiant Itineraries: Caribbean Paradigms in American Dance and Film
"Lydia Platón Lázaro has performed a defiant itinerary of her own by carrying out a Caribbean-centered reading of Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's groundbreaking work within Caribbean and North American and European modernities, thus revaluing it and its use of Afro-Caribbean expressions taken as primitivistic or derivative. Tropes, forms, and rites that mean one thing in the Caribbean and another ... Read more

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