Belly Dance, Pilgrimage and Identity

This book examines the globalization of belly dance and the distinct dancing communities that have evolved from it. The history of belly dance has taken place within the global flow of sojourners, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and tourists from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In some cases, the dance is transferred to new communities within the gender normative structure of its original location in North Africa and the Middle East. Belly dance also has become part of popular culture's Orientalist infused discourse. The consequence of this discourse has been a global revision of the solo dances of North Africa and the Middle East into new genres that are still part of the larger belly dance community but are distinct in form and meaning from the dance as practiced within communities in North Africa and the Middle East.
 

List of contents

Introduction. Belly Dance.- Chapter 1. Egypt.- Chapter 2. Dancing the Goddess in Popular Culture.- Chapter 3. San Francisco and American Tribal Style.- Chapter 4. Fusion, Dark Fusion and Raqs Gothique.- Chapter 5. Belly Dance, Gender and Identity.- Chapter 6. Belly Dance and the Stage.

About the author

Barbara Sellers-Young is a Professor in the Dance Department at York University, Canada. She is past president of the Congress on Research in Dance and has taught at institutions in United States, Australia, China and England. Her publications include two single authored and four co-edited volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity.

Summary

The consequence of this discourse has been a global revision of the solo dances of North Africa and the Middle East into new genres that are still part of the larger belly dance community but are distinct in form and meaning from the dance as practiced within communities in North Africa and the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Sellers-Young
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781349956852
• ISBN: 978-1-349-95685-2
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 247 g
• Illustrations: XI, 170 p. 14 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Theaterwissenschaft, Darstellende Künste, B, Dance, National Identity, Performing Arts, Raqs Sharki, Theatre Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Geschichte der darstellenden Künste, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theater—History, Theatre History, History of Performing Arts, ethnic identity, American Tribal, fusion belly dance, male belly dance, Gothic belly dance