Defiant itineraries: Caribbean paradigms in American dance and film

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العنوان: Defiant itineraries: Caribbean paradigms in American dance and film
المؤلفون: Platon Lázaro, Lydia, author.
بيانات النشر: First edition.
سنة النشر: 2015
وصف مادي: xiv, 197 pages ; 23 cm
مصطلحات موضوعية: Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. -- United States., Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- United States., Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- Caribbean Area., PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General., PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies., Dance -- Anthropological aspects., Dance in motion pictures, television, etc., PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
Subject Person: Dunham, Katherine., Deren, Maya.
جغرافية الموضوع: Caribbean Area., United States.
الوصف: "This study looks at the ways in which Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States starting in the 1940's. It highlights the way the Caribbean inspired dance creations of dancer, choreographer Katherine Dunham and filmmaker Maya Deren's own incorporation of Caribbean dance in experimental film, enacted strategies to enhance the politics of performances of identity that consider history, embodied experience, strategies for liberation, survival, and memory. It proposes an intercultural discussion that refers to alternative subjectivities for Black dancing bodies within the existing paradigms of the American public"--
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: 1. Introduction: Caribbean Performance: Dancing Transformation in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's "Haitian Excursions" -- 2. Black Dance, Modern Dance, and the Caribbean: Locating the Work of Katherine Dunham and Maya Deren -- 3. Island Possessed: Dance Ethnography Performing the Caribbean -- 4. Maya Deren on Visualizing (Mediating) Vodou -- Afterword: Caribbean Dis-Location.
Original Identifier: (PromptCat)99964491962
ocn907658257
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-1-137-47553-4
1-137-47553-6
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.014503547.6
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
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ردمك:9781137475534
1137475536