Format:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816647763
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9780816647767
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9780816647750
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0816647755
Content:
In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these concert performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences.Illustrating how Native dance enacts cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Introduction: Dance as Document; Part I. Restrictions, Regulations, Resiliences; 1. Have They a Right? Nineteenth-Century Indian Dance Practices and Federal Policy; 2. Theatricalizing Dancing and Policing Authenticity; 3. Antidance Rhetoric and American Indian Arts in the 1920s; Part II. Twentieth-Century Modern Dance; 4. Authentic Themes: Modern Dancers and American Indians in the 1920s and 1930s; 5. Her Point of View: Martha Graham and Absent Indians; 6. Held in Reserve: José Limón, Tom Two Arrows, and American Indian Dance in the 1950s; Part III. Indigenous Choreographers Today
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7. The Emergence of a Visible Native American Stage Dance8. Aboriginal Land Claims and Aboriginal Dance at the End of the Twentieth Century; 9. We're Dancing: Indigenous Stage Dance in the Twenty-first Century; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816647750
Additional Edition:
Print version People Have Never Stopped Dancing : Native American Modern Dance Histories
Language:
English
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