Dancing across borders
Subtitle: the American fascination with exotic dance forms
By: Anthony Shay.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780786437849
Subjects: Dance -- Social aspects -- United States; Dance -- United States -- History; Dance -- Anthropological aspects; Sex in dance
Description: "This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms among mainstream Americans. Throughout the 20th century, millions of Americans have begun learning and performing various Balkan dances, the tango, and other Latin American dances, along with the classical dances of India, Japan, and Indonesia"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Gateways; title: 1. "I nearly swooned" : empowering encounters of the exotic kind; title: 2. The early exotic dancers; title: 3. The recreational international folk dance movement; title: 4. Ethnomusicology and dance ethnology; title: Part 2. Genres; title: 5. Kolomania : Balkan dance as an American expression; title: 6. Belly dance : embodied orientalism; title: 7. Classical Asian dance : the arduous journey; title: 8. Latin American dances : sin and sex made safe.