Cultural memory and popular dance : dancing to remember, dancing to forget /: dancing to remember, dancing to forget. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Clare Parfitt.
• Editors: Parfitt, Clare
• Contents: 1. Introduction.- 2. Mother Tongue: Dance and Language, an Autobiographical Excavation.- 3. From danzón to salsa. Archives, dancing body and cultural memory in Cuba.- 4. Feeling With, Moving Toward: Empathetic Attunement as Dance Reconstruction Methodology.- 5. The tanda and Afro-Argentine memory: Remembering Black Buenos Aires through tango.- 6. Salsa con 'Afro'.- 7. Dancing the Gone-Too-Soon, Re-Membering Slavery's Persistent Wound: Young Black Ghosts in Popular American Performance.- 8. Embodying and transmitting cultural memory through tap dance: Shuffling with my dancestors.- 9. Recognizing sources, not being copies: Constructions of cultural memory and 'ownership' by French urban dancers.- 10. Learning dances, forgetting borders: Embodied national remembering and the role of the ethnographer in the Hungarian táncház revival.- 11. Limbo like me: 'limberness' and refugee experience.- 12. From Colonial Subject to Independence: Cariñosa and Tinikling.- 13. Youthful Bodies as Mnemonic Artifacts: Traversing the Cultural Terrain from Traditional to Popular Dances in Post Independent Ghana.- 14. Dance Performance and Memory in Post-War Peru.- 15. Beyond the hips: The Afro-Ecuadorian dance of Bomba in Chota-Mira Valley as an affective space to remember.- 16. 'What When I Yearn to Dance Along!?' – The Transmission of (Be)Longing and Nostalgia in Popular Screendance.- 17. Parading the Past, Taming the New: Popular Dance Excursions.- 18. Speaking the Unspeakable: the cancan and the classical canon.- 19. Dionysus meets neoliberalism: Zumba Fitness as an example of Zorbitality.- 20. Bent History? The Late-Modern Uses and Abuses of Historical Imagery Showing Men Dancing Tango with Each Other.- 21. Conclusions.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.4846; Dance -- Social aspects; Collective memory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030710835
• Related ISBNs: 9783030710828
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