The Irish dancing
Subtitle: cultural politics and identities, 1900-2000
By: Barbara O'Connor
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781782050414
Subjects: Dance; Irish Folk dancing; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Irish Dancing: Cultural Politics and Identities --; title: The Body Politic: Dance and National Identity --; title: The Devil in the Dancehall: Church, State and Dance Regulation --; title: Ballrooms of Romance: Dance, Modernity and Consumption --; title: Return of the Repressed? Set Dance, Postmodernity and Community --; title: Dancing the Diaspora: Ethnicity and Cultural Memory --; title: The Riverdance Effect: Culture Industries and Global Irishness --; title: On With the Dance: Concluding Thoughts.