Flamenco - Conflicting Histories of the Dance

Informationen zum Autor Michelle Heffner Hayes, dancer, choreographer and dance scholar is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Dance at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Klappentext This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century to the present, using histories, film, accounts of live performances, and practitioner interviews. Beginning with an analysis of flamenco historiography, the text examines images of the female dancer in films by Luis Bunuel, Carlos Saura, and Antonio Gades; stereotypes of flamenco bodies and Andalusian culture in Prosper Merimee's Carmen; and the ways in which contemporary flamenco dancers like Belen Maya and Rocio Molina negotiate the stereotype of Carmen and an idealized Spanish feminine that pervades "traditional" flamenco. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. Zusammenfassung Presents an analytical history that traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century onwards! using flamenco histories! film appearances of flamenco! accounts of live performances! and interviews with practitioners to map the emergence of a global dance practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: Flamenco's Exotic Currency      1. DESIRING NARRATIVES: FLAMENCO IN HISTORY AND FILM      Conflicting Histories      Origin Points      Romantic Excursions      La Edad de Oro/The Golden Age      Transformation Abroad and Tourism at HomePurity and Preservation      The Ideology of Flamenco Histories      The Desiring Subject      A Choreographic In(ter)vention      Film Narrative as a Discourse of Desire      2. PURISM, TOURISM AND LOST INNOCENCE      Flamenco Bodies: Essence or Effect?      International Exposure      Model Exotics      Paradise Lost      The Taint of Tourism      3. IMAGINING ANDALUSIA      Divine Inspiration: Origins Reconsidered      Passionate Nature: The Academic Appeal of a Universal Humanity      Sober Clinicism: Demystifying the Other      (Re)discovering the Women in Cante      4. FATAL FILMIC FLAMENCAS      The Spectre of Carmen      That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)      Marked: The Character of La Novia in Blood Wedding (1981)      Carmen Revisited (1983)      Love, the Magician (1986)      5. REALISM REINVENTED      The Documentary and Nacionalflamenquismo 124Sevillanas (1992) and Flamenco (1995)      Opening Credits (Sevillanas)Opening Credits (Flamenco)      The Performances (Sevillanas)      The Performances (Flamenco)      Sevillanas Flamencas, Sevillanas Gitanas      Endings: Sevillanas      Endings: Flamenco      Flamenco Women (1997)      6. REINTERPRETING THE EXOTIC      Calculated Unruliness      Strategic Presence      Practiced Spontaneity      The Dancing Lesson (Anaheim, California, 1995)The Problem of Improvisation/Giving Up the Ghost      Rising from the Ashes: Spain's Position in the New World Order      7. "SOMOS ANTI-GUAPAS"-AGAINST BEAUTY IN CONTEMPORARY FLAMENCOBelén Maya      Pastora Galván      Rocío Molina      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index...

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Hayes, Michelle Heffner Hayes
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2009
• EAN: 9780786439232
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-3923-2
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous