The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora

by Theodore S. Gonzalves

Overview

Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. Through performances-and parodies of them-these celebrations of national identity through music, dance, and theatrical narratives reemphasize what it means to be Filipino American. In The Day the Dancers Stayed, scholar 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592137299
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	10/15/2009
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Theodore S. Gonzalves is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaìi at Manoa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 
Prologue 
Introduction 
1. The Art of the State: Inventing Philippine Folkloric Forms (Manila, 1934) 
2. “Take It from the People”: Dancing Diplomats and Cultural Authenticity (Brussels, 1958) 
3. Dancing into Oblivion: The Pilipino Cultural Night (Los Angeles, 1983) 
4. Repetitive Motion: The Mechanics of Reverse Exile (San Francisco, 1993) 
5. Making a Mockery of Everything We Hold True and Dear: Exploring Parody with Tongue in a Mood’s PCN Salute (San Francisco, 1997) 
Conclusion 
Epilogue: Memoria 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index