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Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity

Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity

Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity
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Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity

Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity

Overview

In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice. They explore the differences between the solo improvisational forms of North Africa and the Middle East, often referred to as raqs sharki, which are part of family celebrations, and the numerous globalized versions of this dance form, belly dance, derived from the movement vocabulary of North Africa and the Middle East but with a variety of performance styles distinct from its site of origin. Local versions of belly dance have grown and changed along with the role that dance plays in the community. The global evolution of belly dance is an inspiring example of the interplay of imagination, the internet and the social forces of local communities.

All royalties are being donated to Women for Women International, an organization dedicated to supporting women survivors of war through economic, health, and social education programs. The contributors are proud to provide continuing sponsorship to such a worthwhile and necessary cause.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786473700
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 07/11/2013
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Caitlin E. McDonald holds a Ph.D. in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter. She lives in London. Barbara Sellers-Young is the former Dean of the School of Arts, Media, Performance, and Design of York University. She has applied the somatic marker hypothesis to dance performance in numerous articles and lectures, and is the author or editor of seven books on dance theory.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments 1

Introduction: The Interplay of Dance and the Imagined Possibilities of Identity Barbara Sellers-Young 3

What Is Baladi about al-Raqs al-Baladi? On the Survival of Belly Dance in Egypt Noha Roushdy 17

Finding "the Feeling": Oriental Dance, Musiqa al-Gadid, and Tarab Candace Bordelon 33

Performing Identity/Diasporic Encounters Lynette Harper 48

1970s Belly Dance and the "How-To" Phenomenon: Feminism, Fitness and Orientalism Virginia Keft-Kennedy 68

Dancing with Inspiration in New Zealand and Australian Dance Communities Marion Cowper Carolyn Michelle 93

Local Performance/Global Connection: American Tribal Style and Its Imagined Community Teresa Cutler-Broyles 106

The Use of Nostalgia in Tribal Fusion Dance Catherine Mary Scheelar 121

"I mean, what is a Pakeha New Zealander's national dance? We don't have one": Belly Dance and Transculturation in New Zealand Brigid Kelly 138

Quintessentially English Belly Dance: In Search of an English Tradition Siouxsie Cooper 152

Delilah: Dancing the Earth Barbara Sellers-Young 168

Negotiating Female Sexuality: Bollywood Belly Dance, "Item Girls" and Dance Classes Smeeta Mishra 181

Digitizing Raqs Sharqi: Belly Dance in Second Life Caitlin E. McDonald 197

About the Contributors 211

Index 213

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