The day the dancers stayed
Subtitle: performing in the Filipino-American diaspora
By: Theodore S. Gonzalves.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781592137282; 9781592137299
Subjects: Folklore -- Philippines -- Performance; Folk dancing, Philippine; Folk music -- Philippines; National characteristics, Philippine; Filipino Americans -- History; Filipino Americans -- Social life and customs
Description: "[S]cholar and performer Theodore Gonzalves traces a genealogy of performance repertoire from the 1930s to the present and considers the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.