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12%OFFJacqueline Shea Murphy - The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories - 9780816647767 - V9780816647767
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The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories

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Description for The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 703.

During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences.

 

Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo ... Read more

 

Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage.

 

Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647767
SKU
V9780816647767
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