The Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History Dance

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2710 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195148909

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History by Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Women
ISBN : PSU:000062905558

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: Dance by Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

This encyclopedia captures the experiences of women throughout world history and illuminates how they have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. It contains over 1,300 signed articles covering six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society; organizations and movements; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history.

Author : Selma Jeanne Cohen,Dance Perspectives Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 0195173694

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International Encyclopedia of Dance by Selma Jeanne Cohen,Dance Perspectives Foundation Pdf

Provides information on all aspects of dance including dance forms, costumes, dancers, choreographers, music, and history from around the world.

Author : ed. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 019509462X

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INTERNATIONAL Encyclopedia of Dance by ed. Cohen Pdf

Author : Selma Jeanne Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 0195175867

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International Encyclopedia of Dance by Selma Jeanne Cohen Pdf

In addition to historical and descriptive materials on dance, music and costume, numerous entries provide coverage of methodologies, theories, criticism and the history of dance writing and publication.

Author : Julia Hauser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004290785

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German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut by Julia Hauser Pdf

In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions, Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses’ establishment in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city.

Author : Victoria Fortuna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190627041

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Moving Otherwise by Victoria Fortuna Pdf

Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. From the repression of military dictatorships to the precarity of economic crises, contemporary dancers and audiences consistently responded to and reimagined the everyday choreographies that have accompanied Argentina's volatile political history. The titular concept, "moving otherwise" names how both concert dance and its off-stage practice and consumption offer alternatives to and modes to critique the patterns of movement and bodily comportment that shape everyday life in contexts marked by violence. Drawing on archival research based in institutional and private collections, over fifty interviews with dancers and choreographers, and the author's embodied experiences as a collaborator and performer with active groups, the book analyzes how a wide range of practices moved otherwise, including concert works, community dance initiatives, and the everyday labor that animates dance. It demonstrates how these diverse practices represent, resist, and remember violence and engender new forms of social mobilization on and off the theatrical stage. As the first book length critical study of Argentine contemporary dance, it introduces a breadth of choreographers to an English speaking audience, including Ana Kamien, Susana Zimmermann, Estela Maris, Alejandro Cervera, Renate Schottelius, Susana Tambutti, Silvia Hodgers, and Silvia Vladimivsky. It also considers previously undocumented aspects of Argentine dance history, including crossings between contemporary dancers and 1970s leftist political militancy, Argentine dance labor movements, political protest, and the prominence of tango themes in contemporary dance works that address the memory of political violence. Contemporary dance, the book demonstrates, has a rich and diverse history of political engagement in Argentina.

Author : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520301665

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Impersonations by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Pdf

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries—village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative—to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.

Author : Susan de-Gaia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440848506

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Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes] by Susan de-Gaia Pdf

This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures. Across the span of human history, women have participated in world-building and life-sustaining cultural creativity, making enormous contributions to religion and spirituality. In the contemporary period, women have achieved greater equality, with more educational opportunities, female role models in public life, and opportunities for religious expression than ever before. Contemporaneously with this increased visibility, women are actively and energetically engaging with religion for themselves and for their communities. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars, this reference chronicles the religious experiences of women across time and cultures. The book includes sections on major religions as well as on spirituality, African religions, prehistoric religions, and other broad topics. Each section begins with an introduction, followed by reference entries on specialized subjects along with excerpts from primary source documents. The entries provide numerous suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a detailed bibliography.

Author : Sarah Arens,Nicola Frith,Jonathan Lewis,Rebekah Vince
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781835536926

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Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World by Sarah Arens,Nicola Frith,Jonathan Lewis,Rebekah Vince Pdf

This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives — whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh’s research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh’s scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442257498

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The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn’t a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe. This illustrated compendium offers the student, teacher, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and general reader an overview of the evolution and social and religious significance of folk dance. The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance focuses on the uniqueness of kinetic performance and its contribution to the study and appreciation of rhythmic expression around the globe. Following a chronology of momentous events dating from prehistory to the present day, the entries in this volume include material on technical terms, character roles, and specific dances. The entries also summarize the historical and ethnic milieu of each style and execution, highlighting, among other elements, such features as: origins purpose rituals and traditions props dress holidays themes

Author : Shih-Ming Li Chang,Lynn E. Frederiksen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780819576323

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Chinese Dance by Shih-Ming Li Chang,Lynn E. Frederiksen Pdf

As China becomes increasingly important in world relations, many components of the country’s cultural arts remain unknown outside its borders. Shih-Ming Li Chang and Lynn E. Frederiksen’s Chinese Dance: In the Vast Land and Beyond undertakes the challenge of discovering the relationship between Chinese dance in its many forms and the cultural contexts of dance within the region and abroad. As a comprehensive resource, Chinese Dance offers students and scholars an invaluable introduction to the subject. It serves as a foundation of common knowledge from which Chinese and English-language communities can begin a cross-cultural conversation about Chinese dance. The text, along with a comprehensive glossary of key terms, gives English-language readers a chance to understand the development of Chinese dance as it is officially articulated by historians and dance scholars in Asia. An online database of video clips, an extensive bibliography, and Web-based appendices provide a broad collection of primary source materials that invite interactive and flexible engagement by a range of users. The inclusion of interviews with Chinese dance practitioners in North America offers a view into the Asian diaspora experience.

Author : Anaïs Angelo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000432688

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The Politics of Biography in Africa by Anaïs Angelo Pdf

Bringing together historians, political scientists, and literary analysts, this volume shows how biographical narratives can shed light on alternative, little known or under-researched aspects of state power in African politics. Part 1 shows how biographical narratives breathe new life into subjects who, upon decolonization, had been reduced to silence - women, workers, and radical politicians. The contributors analyze the complex relationship between biographical narratives and power, questioning either the power of biographical codes peculiar to western, colonial origins, or the power to shape public memory. Part 2 reflects on the act of (auto-)biography writing as an exercise of power, one that blurs the lines between truth and invention. (Auto-)biographical narratives appear as politicized, ambiguous stories. Part 3 focuses on female leadership during and after colonization, exploring on how women gained, lost, or reinvented "power". Brought together, the contributions of this volume show that the function of biographical narratives should no longer oscillate between romanticized narratives and historical evidence; their varied formats all offer fruitful opportunities for a multidisciplinary dialogue. This book will be of interest to scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds working on the African postcolonial state, the decolonization process, women’s and gender studies, and biography writing.

Author : Mark Knowles
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786453603

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The Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances by Mark Knowles Pdf

The waltz, perhaps the most beloved social dance of the 19th and early 20th centuries, once provoked outrage from religious leaders and other self-appointed arbiters of social morality. Decrying the corrupting influence of social dancing, they failed to suppress the popularity of the waltz or other dance crazes of the period, including the Charleston, the tango, and "animal dances" such as the Turkey Trot, Grizzly Bear, and Bunny Hug. This book investigates the development of these popular dances, considering in particular how their very existence as "taboo" cultural fads ultimately provided a catalyst for lasting social reform. In addition to examining the impact of the waltz and other scandalous dances on fashion, music, leisure, and social reform, the text describes the opposition to dance and the proliferation of literature on both sides.

Author : Selma Jeanne Cohen,George Dorris,Thomas Forrest Kelly,Oxford University Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Dance
ISBN : 019509462X

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International Encyclopedia of Dance by Selma Jeanne Cohen,George Dorris,Thomas Forrest Kelly,Oxford University Press Pdf