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Can I read Folk Dance and the Creation of National Identities : Staging the Folk on EtoBox?
Folk Dance and the Creation of National Identities : Staging the Folk by Anthony Shay is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Folk Dance and the Creation of National Identities : Staging the Folk about?
This book is about the folk: the folk in folk dance, the folk in folklore, the folk in folk wisdom. When we see folk dance on the stage or in a tourist setting, which is the way in which many of us experience folk dance, the question arises are these the “real folk” performing their authentic dances? Or are they urban, well trained, carefully-rehearsed professional dancers who make their livelihood as representatives of a specific nation-state acting as the folk? Or something in between? This study delves more deeply into the folk, their origins, their identities in order to know the source of inspiration for ethno identity dances - dances prepared for the stage and the ballroom and for public performances from ballet, state folk dance ensembles and their amateur emulators, immigrant folk dance group performances, and tourist presentations. These dances, unlike modern dance, ballet, or most vernacular dances, always have strong ethnic references. It will also look at a gallery of choreographers and artistic directors across a wide spectrum of dance genres.
Who reads Folk Dance and the Creation of National Identities : Staging the Folk?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anthony Shay
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783031233364
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Performing Arts, Memoir, Anthropology