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Dance, Authenticity and Cultural Memory: The Politics of Embodiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Theresa Jill Buckland
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The recent shift of scholarly focus towards the body and performance has helped to raise the profile of dance as a significant academic site for cultural investigation and to open up channels for dialogue with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Chapters on dance may now be found in collections on gender, the body and ethnography, for example and there is abundant evidence of the impact of poststructuralist and postmodernist thinking in mainstream dance literature itself. This interest may engage with ethnographic approaches to dance to formulate questions around “whose body in performance?” so that issues of gender, social status, kinship, ethnicity and power can be addressed, as well as more reflexive concerns related to bodily experience. From an ethnological perspective, such contemporary aspects of study in relation to the moving body may be examined diachronically, particularly in dance practices where the past is perceived as being of key significance.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 33 , 2001 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © 2001 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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