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Book Synopsis Society and the Dance by : Paul Spencer
Download or read book Society and the Dance written by Paul Spencer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting seven examples from Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Oceania, this study attempts to further the anthropological understanding of dance's social significance and critical relevance by exploring it as a reflection of social forces.
Book Synopsis Shaping Society Through Dance by : Zoila S. Mendoza
Download or read book Shaping Society Through Dance written by Zoila S. Mendoza and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the way that the comparsas, Peruvian dance troupes, exert influence on Peruvian society and hasten social change. Contains several excerpts of comparsas performances.
Book Synopsis Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences by : Kristin Luker
Download or read book Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences written by Kristin Luker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You might think that dancing doesn’t have a lot to do with social research, and doing social research is probably why you picked this book up in the first place. But trust me. Salsa dancing is a practice as well as a metaphor for a kind of research that will make your life easier and better.” Savvy, witty, and sensible, this unique book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science. In this volume, Kristin Luker guides novice researchers in: knowing the difference between an area of interest and a research topic; defining the relevant parts of a potentially infinite research literature; mastering sampling, operationalization, and generalization; understanding which research methods best answer your questions; beating writer’s block. Most important, she shows how friendships, non-academic interests, and even salsa dancing can make for a better researcher. “You know about setting the kitchen timer and writing for only an hour, or only 15 minutes if you are feeling particularly anxious. I wrote a fairly large part of this book feeling exactly like that. If I can write an entire book 15 minutes at a time, so can you.”
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Dance Fusion in the Caribbean and Dance Sustainability by : Aminata Cairo
Download or read book Perspectives on Dance Fusion in the Caribbean and Dance Sustainability written by Aminata Cairo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the theme of fusion in Caribbean dance from a wide range of perspectives, including its socio-cultural-historical formation. The contributions are drawn from a conference entitled “Caribbean Fusion Dance Works: Rituals of Modern Society”, which focused primarily on the Caribbean as a unique locale. However, chapters on dance fusions in other diasporic locations and the sustainability of dance as an art form are also included here in order to offer a sense of an inevitable and, in some instances, desirable evolution due to the globalizing forces that continue to influence dance.
Book Synopsis Coaxing the Spirits to Dance by : Robert Louis Welsch
Download or read book Coaxing the Spirits to Dance written by Robert Louis Welsch and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaxing the Spirits to Dance explores the relationship between social life and artistic expression since the nineteenth century in one of the most important art-producing regions of Papua New Guinea. It includes a stunning presentation of hand-carved and hand-painted ancestor boards, masks, drums, skull racks, and personal items. Each society on the Papuan Gulf had its own elaborate traditions of carved, painted, or decorated masks, boards, and hand drums that filled the men's longhouses for use in dances and performances. Today these art objects offer a glimpse into the varied cosmologies and ritual lives of these surprisingly diverse societies before they were changed significantly through their contact with the West.
Book Synopsis Society and the Dance by : Paul Spencer
Download or read book Society and the Dance written by Paul Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dance and Society in Eastern Africa 1890–1970 by : T. O. Ranger
Download or read book Dance and Society in Eastern Africa 1890–1970 written by T. O. Ranger and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Download or read book Dance in Society written by Frances Rust and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Degas: Dance, Politics and Society by : Adriano Pedrosa
Download or read book Degas: Dance, Politics and Society written by Adriano Pedrosa and published by Delmonico Books. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reconception of Degas' sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the works This substantial new monograph on the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the most significant artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, is a decisive contribution to the literature on the French Impressionist artist. An innovative and groundbreaking book, with underlying discussions related to "dance, politics and society," it pays special attention to issues of gender, identity, labor, race and the representation of women. Degas worked in various mediums, and, at the end of his life, left around 6,000 works, including 2,000 related to the world of dance and ballet. The contradictions and ambiguities of his art, especially the way he straddles both tradition and modernity, reaffirm both his uniqueness and significance in the history of Western art. Degas: Dance, Politics and Society includes ten essays, never before published, by experts around the world, and also features a visual essay of black-and-white photographs of the bronze sculptures, including Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, by the Brazilian artist Sofia Borges. Through her camera, Borges reinterprets and conceives new images of Degas' most cherished and classic sculptures. Borges' extraordinary photographs reveal, transform and revisit Degas' works in an innovative and radical manner.
Book Synopsis The Dance of Modern Society by : William Cleaver Wilkinson
Download or read book The Dance of Modern Society written by William Cleaver Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many other nineteenth-century antidance writers who base their arguments on Scripture, Wilkinson asks that his readers formulate their opinions on reason, conscience, and common sense. In fact, Wilkinson argues that he is not an enemy of dance and declares it to be perfectly innocent. His argument is against the "modern manner of dancing" that requires expensive clothing and the "massing together of a jostling crowd of mute or merely gibbering animals." Thus, he summarizes, dancing does nothing to "enhance the intellectual improvement of society."
Book Synopsis SOCIETY, SPIRIT and SELF by : Robertson Work
Download or read book SOCIETY, SPIRIT and SELF written by Robertson Work and published by Compassionate Civilization Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains three collections and nine themes of essays written between 1966 and 2021. The book transports the reader through fifty-six years of essays on societal, spiritual, and personal reinvention and transformation. The reader not only encounters the ideas and experiences of the author but those of UNDP, ICA, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jean Houston, Ken Wilber, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joseph Mathews, Norman O. Brown, Angeles Arrien, Landmark Forum, Humberto Maturana, Willis Harman, Paul Tillich, Rudolph Bultmann, and others. The reader will explore whole systems change, sustainable human development, visionary social activism, demythologized Christianity, progressive Buddhism, worldly spirituality, and intimate reflections on the author's knowing, doing, and being. Readers will enjoy being part of the One Dance.
Book Synopsis The Folk Dance Book, for Elementary Schools, Classroom, Playground, and Gymnasium by : Charles Ward Crampton
Download or read book The Folk Dance Book, for Elementary Schools, Classroom, Playground, and Gymnasium written by Charles Ward Crampton and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion by : Steven H. Lonsdale
Download or read book Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion written by Steven H. Lonsdale and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In private and in public life, the ancient Greeks danced to express divine adoration and human festivity. They danced at feasts and choral competitions, at weddings and funerals, in observance of the cycles of both nature and human existence. Formal and informal dances marked the rhythms of life and death. In Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion, Steven Lonsdale looks at how the Greeks themselves regarded the act of dance, and how dance and related forms of ritual play in Greek religious festivals served a wide variety of functions in Greek society. The act of worship, he explains, often implied engaging in collective rites regulated by playful behavior, the most common forms of which were group hymns and choral dances.
Book Synopsis Urban Bush Women by : Nadine George-Graves
Download or read book Urban Bush Women written by Nadine George-Graves and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance techniques and theater characterization exercises, incorporates breath and vocalization, and employs space and movement to instill their performances with emotion and purpose. Urban Bush Women concerts are also deeply rooted in community activism, using socially conscious performances in places around the country—from the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and the Joyce, to community centers and school auditoriums—to inspire audience members to engage in neighborhood change and challenge stereotypes of gender, race, and class. Nadine George-Graves presents a comprehensive history of Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. She analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals. This illustrated book captures the grace and power of the dancers in motion and provides an absorbing look at an innovative company that continues to raise the bar for socially conscious dance.
Download or read book Jookin' written by Katrina Hazzard-Gordon and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first analysis of the development of the jook and other dance arenas in African-American culture.
Book Synopsis Embodied Communities by : Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Download or read book Embodied Communities written by Felicia Hughes-Freeland and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance's role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come from the skillful manipulation of both physical and verbal forms of politeness. This account of dance's significance in performance and in everyday life draws on extensive research, including dance training in Java, and builds on how practitioners interpret and explain the repertoire. The Javanese case is contextualized in relation to social values, religion, philosophy, and commoditization arising from tourism. It also raises fundamental questions about the theorization of culture, society and the body during a period of radical change.
Book Synopsis Dance In Society Ils 85 by : Frances Rust
Download or read book Dance In Society Ils 85 written by Frances Rust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume II of nine in a collection on the Sociology of Culture. Originally published in 1969 this is an analysis of the relationship between the social dance and society in England from the Middle Ages to the 1960s.
