Overview
- Addresses the position of diasporic genres within the Australian dancescape
- Appraises Australian dance history and practice using a decolonized lens
- Advocates for greater recognition of culturally specific dance genres in Australia
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About this book
This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within a post-migration context, multicultural festivals, prominent performers, historiographies and archives, and the relative positionings of cultural and Western theatrical dance genres. The book offers a decolonized appraisal of dance in Australia, critiquing past and present praxes and offering suggestions for the future. Overall, it underscores the highly variegated nature of the Australian dance landscape and advocates for greater recognition of amateur community dance practices. Cultural Dance in Australia makes a substantial contribution to the catalogue of work about immigrants and cultural dance styles that continue to be preserved in Australia. Thisbook will be of interest to scholars of dance, performance studies, migration studies and transnationalism.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Dance in Australia
Book Subtitle: Essays on performance contexts beyond the Pale
Authors: Jeanette Mollenhauer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5900-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5899-1Published: 29 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5902-8Published: 30 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5900-4Published: 28 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 284
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dance, Aesthetics, Cultural History, Anthropology, Creativity and Arts Education