Belly dance around the world
Subtitle: new communities, performance and identity
By: edited by Caitlin E. McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780786473700
Subjects: Social aspects; Dance and transnationalism; Belly dance
Description: "Dancer/scholars from around the world have contributed essays on belly dance to this book. They all carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: The interplay of dance and the imagined possibilities of identity  -- Barbara Sellers-Young; title: What is Baladi about al-Raqs al-Baladi?; title: On the survival of belly dance in Egypt  -- Noha Roushdy; title: Finding "the feeling" :; title: oriental dance, Musiqa a-Gadid, and Tarab  -- Candace Bordelon; title: Performing identity/diasporic encounters  -- Lynette Harper; title: 1970s belly dance and the "how-to" phenomenon :; title: feminism, fitness and orientalism  -- Virginia Keft-Kennedy; title: Dancing with inspiration in New Zealand and Australian dance communities  -- Marion Cowper and Carolyn Michelle; title: Local performance/global connection :; title: American tribal style and its imagined community  -- Teresa Cutler-Broyles; title: The use of nostalgia in tribal fusion dance  -- Catherine Mary Scheelar; title: "I mean, what is a Pakeha Ne Zealander's national dance?; title: We don't have one" :; title: belly dance and transculturation in New Zealand  -- Brigid Kelly; title: Quintessentially English belly dance :; title: in search of an English tradition  -- Siouxsie Cooper; title: Delilah :; title: dancing the earth  -- Barbara Sellers-Young; title: Negotiating female sexuality :; title: Bollywood belly dance, "item girls" and dance classes  -- Smeeta Mishra; title: Digitizing Raqs Sharqi :; title: belly dance in second life -- Caitlin E. McDonald.