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Dancing Communities
Judith A. Hamera
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Description for Dancing Communities
Paperback. "Dancing Communities" examines performances that create urban communities by blurring, or reinforcing, complex cultural and ethnic boundaries. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFD; JFSJ; JFSL; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals who may have little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities the book suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work productively together.
Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals who may have little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities the book suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work productively together.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
Series
Studies in International Performance
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349279432
SKU
V9781349279432
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99-15
About Judith A. Hamera
JUDITH HAMERA is Professor and Head of the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University, USA. She is the editor of Open Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies and co-editor of The Handbook of Performance Studies. She is the recipient of the National Communication Association's Lilla Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, and received ... Read more
Reviews for Dancing Communities
Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association. '[Hamera] makes several prominent contributions to dance studies, and also to any scholarship interested in the relationship between community-building and the arts.' Theatre Journal 'As a practitioner of several disciplines...and as a resident of the global city ... Read more