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- Presents the latest approaches to and understanding of belly dance in a lively and accessible style
- Provides a comprehensive analysis of the field, ranging from its origins to contemporary performances
- Uses first hand accounts and stories to bring to life the often misunderstood and misrepresented world of belly dance
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the globalization of belly dance and the distinct dancing communities that have evolved from it. The history of belly dance has taken place within the global flow of sojourners, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and tourists from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In some cases, the dance is transferred to new communities within the gender normative structure of its original location in North Africa and the Middle East. Belly dance also has become part of popular culture’s Orientalist infused discourse. The consequence of this discourse has been a global revision of the solo dances of North Africa and the Middle East into new genres that are still part of the larger belly dance community but are distinct in form and meaning from the dance as practiced within communities in North Africa and the Middle East.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dance Department, York University, Toronto, Canada
Barbara Sellers-Young
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Belly Dance, Pilgrimage and Identity
Authors: Barbara Sellers-Young
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94954-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-94953-3Published: 14 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95685-2Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-94954-0Published: 07 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 170
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Dance, Theatre History, Performing Arts