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Dancing Spirit, Love, and War - Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Evadne Kelly is an independent artist-scholar. Her research focuses on the political and social dimensions of dance traditions and her publications appear in Pacific Arts Journal , The Dance Current , Performance Matters , and Fiji Times . Klappentext Meke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated history of colonialism, racism, censorship, and religious conflict, meke remained a vital part of artistic expression and culture. Evadne Kelly performs close readings of the dance in relation to an evolving landscape, following the postcolonial reclamation that provided dancers with political agency and a strong sense of community that connected and fractured Fijians worldwide.Through extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork in both Fiji and Canada, Kelly offers key insights into an underrepresented dance form, region, and culture. Her perceptive analysis of meke will be of interest in dance studies, postcolonial and Indigenous studies, anthropology and performance ethnography, and Pacific Island studies. Zusammenfassung Through extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork in both Fiji and Canada, Evadne Kelly offers key insights into an underrepresented dance form, region, and culture. Her perceptive analysis of meke will be of interest in dance studies, postcolonial and Indigenous studies, anthropology and performance ethnography, and Pacific Island studies.

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Authors Evadne Kelly
Publisher The University of Wisconsin Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2022
 
EAN 9780299322045
ISBN 978-0-299-32204-5
No. of pages 256
Series Studies in Dance History
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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