"And I Make My Own": Class Performance, Black Urban Identity, and Depression-Era Harlem's Physical Culture / Christopher Wells -- "Do you want to see my hornpipe?": creativity and Irish step dance in the Work of Jean Butler and Colin Dunne. / Aoife McGrath -- Dancing Jews and Jewesses: Jewishness, Ethnicity, and Exoticism in American Dance. / Rebecca Rossen -- Queering Ethnicity and Shattering the Disco: Is There an Enduring Gay Ethnic Dance? / Darren Blaney -- Dancing Multiple Identities: Preserving and Revitalizing Dances of the Skolt Sami. / Petri Hoppu -- To call dance Japanese: Nihon Buyo as ethnic dance / Leonard Pronko and Jonathan M. Hall-- Diasporic Ethnicity, Gender, and Dance: Muslim Macedonian Roma in New York / Carol Silverman -- 'An Interesting Experiment in Eugenics': Ted Shawn, American Dance, and the Discourses of Sex, Race, and Ethnicity. / Paul Scolieri -- Dancing angels and princesses: the Invention of an ideal female national dancer in 20th-Century Iran. / Ida Meftahi -- The Spectacularization of Soviet/Russian Folk Dance: Igor Moiseyev and the Invented Tradition of Staged Folk Dance. / Anthony Shay -- LADO, the State Ensemble of Croatian Folk Dances and Songs: Icon of Croatian Identity. / Anthony Shay -- Authenticity and Ethnicity: Folk Dance, Americanization and the Immigrant Body in the Early Twentieth Century. / Jessica Ray Herzogenrath -- A Folklorist's View of 'Folk' and 'Ethnic' Dance: Three Ukrainian Examples. / Andriy Nahachewsky -- The Jarabe Tapatio: Imagining Race, Nation, Class, and Gender in 1920s Mexico. / Gabriela Garcia-Mendoza -- Perception, Connections, and Performed Identities in American Ghanaian Dance Encounters. / Jennifer Fisher -- Orientalism and the American Belly Dancer: Multiplicity, Authenticity, Identity. / Andrea Deagon -- Black Erased: The Tango de Negros in Spain's Romantic Age. / Kathy M. Milazzo -- English-Canadian Ethnocentricity: The Case Study of Boris Volkoff at the 1936 Nazi Olympics. / Allana Lindgren -- La Meri: Purveyor of the Dancing Other. / Nancy Lee Ruyter -- Choreographing Interculturalism: International Dance Performance at the American Museum of Natural History, 1943-1952. / Rebekah Kowal -- 'Hot' Latin Dance: Ethnic Identity and Stereotype. / Juliet McMains -- From Salsa to Salzonte: Rhythmic Identities and Inventive Dance Identities and Inventive Dance Traditions in Ghana. / Christey Carwile -- Spectacle of Ethnicities: The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. / Miriam Phillips -- Dancecapes of Dionysus: from Kali Vrisi (Northern Greece) to the Olympics / Christos Papacostas -- Ballet and Whiteness: Will Ballet Forever be the Kingdom of the Pale? / Jennifer Fisher -- Men and the Happiness Dance. / Barbara Sellers-Young -- From Powwow to Stomp Dance: Parallel Dance Traditions in Oklahoma. / Paula Conlon -- Beyond Colonization, Commodification and Reclamation: Hula and Hawaiian Identity. / Christine Emi Chan -- Crossing the Seas of Southeast Asia: Indigenous Diasporic Islam and Performances of Women's Igal. / Diyah Larasati -- San Miguel the Arcangel, Capitan of Many Troops: An Ethno-iconographic Study of Danza de Migueles. / Ana Patricia Farfan -- Black Dance After Race. / Thomas DeFrantzo
Summary:
"This compilation of 31 essays from scholars throughout the globe examines the relationship between ethnicity as a signifier of identity and the dances associated with an ethnic designation. As such, it incorporates the critiques of previous designations of dance as folk, classical, etc. in favor of a more nuanced and complex view of ethnicity as at the intersection of race, gender, nation and life style"-- Provided by publisher.
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