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Author: Paul Spencer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521315500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presenting seven examples from Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Oceania, this study attempts to further the anthropological understanding of dance's social significance and critical relevance by exploring it as a reflection of social forces.
Author: Zoila S. Mendoza
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780226520094
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers the way that the comparsas, Peruvian dance troupes, exert influence on Peruvian society and hasten social change. Contains several excerpts of comparsas performances.
Author: Robert Louis Welsch
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Coaxing the Spirits to Dance explores the relationship between social life and artistic expression since the nineteenth century in one of the most important art-producing regions of Papua New Guinea. It includes a stunning presentation of hand-carved and hand-painted ancestor boards, masks, drums, skull racks, and personal items. Each society on the Papuan Gulf had its own elaborate traditions of carved, painted, or decorated masks, boards, and hand drums that filled the men's longhouses for use in dances and performances. Today these art objects offer a glimpse into the varied cosmologies and ritual lives of these surprisingly diverse societies before they were changed significantly through their contact with the West.
Author: Adriano Pedrosa
Publisher: Delmonico Books
Published: 2021-07
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781636810041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A radical reconception of Degas' sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the works This substantial new monograph on the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the most significant artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, is a decisive contribution to the literature on the French Impressionist artist. An innovative and groundbreaking book, with underlying discussions related to "dance, politics and society," it pays special attention to issues of gender, identity, labor, race and the representation of women. Degas worked in various mediums, and, at the end of his life, left around 6,000 works, including 2,000 related to the world of dance and ballet. The contradictions and ambiguities of his art, especially the way he straddles both tradition and modernity, reaffirm both his uniqueness and significance in the history of Western art. Degas: Dance, Politics and Society includes ten essays, never before published, by experts around the world, and also features a visual essay of black-and-white photographs of the bronze sculptures, including Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, by the Brazilian artist Sofia Borges. Through her camera, Borges reinterprets and conceives new images of Degas' most cherished and classic sculptures. Borges' extraordinary photographs reveal, transform and revisit Degas' works in an innovative and radical manner.
Author: Nadine George-Graves
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2010-07-08
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 029923553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance techniques and theater characterization exercises, incorporates breath and vocalization, and employs space and movement to instill their performances with emotion and purpose. Urban Bush Women concerts are also deeply rooted in community activism, using socially conscious performances in places around the country—from the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and the Joyce, to community centers and school auditoriums—to inspire audience members to engage in neighborhood change and challenge stereotypes of gender, race, and class. Nadine George-Graves presents a comprehensive history of Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. She analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals. This illustrated book captures the grace and power of the dancers in motion and provides an absorbing look at an innovative company that continues to raise the bar for socially conscious dance.
Author: T. O. Ranger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0520328361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Author: Robertson Work
Publisher: Compassionate Civilization Press
Published: 2021-09
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780578977003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book contains three collections and nine themes of essays written between 1966 and 2021. The book transports the reader through fifty-six years of essays on societal, spiritual, and personal reinvention and transformation. The reader not only encounters the ideas and experiences of the author but those of UNDP, ICA, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jean Houston, Ken Wilber, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joseph Mathews, Norman O. Brown, Angeles Arrien, Landmark Forum, Humberto Maturana, Willis Harman, Paul Tillich, Rudolph Bultmann, and others. The reader will explore whole systems change, sustainable human development, visionary social activism, demythologized Christianity, progressive Buddhism, worldly spirituality, and intimate reflections on the author's knowing, doing, and being. Readers will enjoy being part of the One Dance.
Author: Aminata Cairo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1527541169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the theme of fusion in Caribbean dance from a wide range of perspectives, including its socio-cultural-historical formation. The contributions are drawn from a conference entitled “Caribbean Fusion Dance Works: Rituals of Modern Society”, which focused primarily on the Caribbean as a unique locale. However, chapters on dance fusions in other diasporic locations and the sustainability of dance as an art form are also included here in order to offer a sense of an inevitable and, in some instances, desirable evolution due to the globalizing forces that continue to influence dance.
Author: Frances Rust
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780415175937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
