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Movable Pillars
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 12.99How six professional dance organizations transformed the landscape of modern dance scholarship more...
Sweating Saris
Temple University Press 2011; US$ 28.95A groundbreaking book that seeks to understand dance as labor, Sweating Saris examines dancers not just as aesthetic bodies but as transnational migrant workers and wage earners who negotiate citizenship and gender issues. Srinivasan merges ethnography, history, critical... more...
Dancing Naturally
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00A renewed interest in nature, the ancient Greeks, and the freedom of the body was to transform dance and physical culture in the early twentieth century. The book discusses the creative individuals and developments in science and other art forms that shaped the evolution of modern dance in its international context. more...
Dance for Export
Wesleyan University Press 2012; US$ 15.99A little-known episode in the history of dance that illuminates the broader subject of cultural policy during the Cold War era. more...
City Folk
NYU Press 2010; US$ 35.00This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition and rehearsed its steps. In City Folk , Daniel... more...
Louisiana Saturday Night
LSU Press 2012; US$ 15.95Music critic Alex V. Cook uncovers south Louisiana?s wellspring of musical tradition, showing us that indigenous music is not an artifact to be salvaged by preservationists, but a living, breathing, singing, laughing, and crying part of Louisiana culture. Louisiana Saturday Nights takes the reader to both offbeat and traditional venues in and around... more...
Dancing Out of Bali
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 19.95" It is Bali felt, understood, loved, communicated...Coast has a kind of word magic. " -- New York Herald Tribune This book tells of a young Englishman, fresh out of a Japanese prison camp, and his Javanese wife, and how they leave Indonesia for the footlights of Broadway. This is a story of life, music, and dancing in Bali, with all the charm of... more...
Balinese Dance, Drama & Music
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 18.95This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most commonly seen forms of traditional performing arts in Bali; gamelan music, dance, drama and puppetry. Ideal reading for visitors to the island as well as for anyone interested in Balinese culture. The book presents the history and function of each type of performance with illustrations and... more...
Gesture, Gender, Nation
Greenwood Publishing Group 2001; US$ 107.00The national dancers in Uzbekistan are almost always female. This work argues that dancers, as symbolic "girls" or unmarried females in the Uzbek kinship system, are effective mediators between extended kin groups, and the Uzbek nation-state. more...
Embodied Communities
Berghahn Books 2008; US$ 90.00Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance?s role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come from the skillful manipulation of both physical and... more...









