Cultural dance in Australia : essays on performance contexts beyond the Pale

Cultural dance in Australia : essays on performance contexts beyond the Pale / Jeanette Mollenhauer.

This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mollenhauer, Jeanette (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Subjects:
Dance > Social aspects > Australia.
Dance > Australia > History.
Dance
Dance > Social aspects
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Australia > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Australia
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Preface
  • Chapter 2. Dance in Diaspora
  • Chapter 3. The West/Rest Pirouette: Division in the Dance Canon
  • Chapter 4. Motifs of Migration: Reproducing Dance in a New Environment
  • Chapter 5. In the Spotlight: Public Performances of Cultural Dance in Australia
  • Chapter 6. The Shell Folkloric Festival: The Most Prominent Multicultural Event
  • Chapter 7. Riverdance and the dissolution of cultural boundaries in Australian Irish Dancing
  • Chapter 8. The Ivory Tower and its Fixed Pointe of Reference
  • Chapter 9. Borders, Boundaries and Difference
  • Chapter 10. The White Pages: Australian Dance Writings
  • Chapter 11. The Need for an Archive of Cultural Dance
  • Chapter 12. Steps Towards the Future.

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