Cultural memory and popular dance : dancing to remember, dancing to forget / Clare Parfitt, editor.
Parfitt, Clare, editor.
2021
GV1588.6
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Title
Cultural memory and popular dance : dancing to remember, dancing to forget / Clare Parfitt, editor.
ISBN
9783030710835 (electronic bk.)
3030710831 (electronic bk.)
3030710823
9783030710828
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71083-5
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 306 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-71083-5 doi
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GV1588.6
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4846
Summary
This book focuses on the myriad ways that people collectively remember or forget shared pasts through popular dance. In dance classes, nightclubs, family celebrations, tourist performances, on television, film, music video and the internet, cultural memories are shared and transformed by dancing bodies adapting yesterdays steps to todays concerns. The book gathers emerging and seasoned scholarly voices from a wide range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives to discuss cultural remembering and forgetting in diverse popular dance contexts. The contributors ask: how are Afro-diasporic memories invoked in popular dance classes? How are popular dance genealogies manipulated and reclaimed? What is at stake for the nation in the nationalizing of folk and popular dances? And how does mediated dancing transmit memory as feelings or affects? The book reveals popular dance to be vital to cultural processes of remembering and forgetting, allowing participants to pivot between alternative pasts, presents and futures. Clare Parfitt is an interdisciplinary dance scholar and PhD Supervisor at the University of Chichester, UK. She is Chair of PoP Moves, an international network for popular dance research. From 20142016, she was Principal Investigator for the AHRC Leadership Fellowship project Dancing with Memory, which led to this edited collection.
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Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
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Introduction: Dancing with memory
Part I. Pedagogic invocations of Afro-diasporic memory. Tap dance and cultural memory : shuffling with my dancestors
"Salsa con Afro" : remembering and reenacting Afro-Cuban roots in the global Cuban and Latin dance communities
Between creolisation and kinaesthetic transnationalism : Zumba fitness as mimetic parody and ritual re-enactment
Part II. Manipulated memory and reclamation. Parading the past, taming the new : from ragtime to rock and roll
Queer tango - bent history? The late-modern uses and abuses of historical imagery showing men dancing tango with each other
Bomba Cimarrona : hip interactions in the Afro-Ecuadorian Bomba del Chota as a decolonial means to remember
Youthful bodies as mnemonic artifacts : traversing the cultural terrain from traditional to popular dances in post-independent Ghana
Part III. National memories and amnesias. Csángó space and time in the Hungarian Táncház revival
National identity in Philippine folk dance : changing focus from the Cariñosa to tinkling
Archive and memory in Cuban dances : the performance of memory and the dancing body as Archive in the making
Courting disasters ("I don't remember anyway") : the forgetful dancer and the body politic in The sound of music (1965)
Part IV. Im/mediate memories. Feeling with, moving toward : empathetic attunement in dance reconstruction methodology
Mother tongue : dance and memory, an autobiographical excavation
Filmed, felt, and false rhythms : dance videos and an embodying "home" in post-migration
The transmission of nostalgia and (be)longing in popular screendance, or recollecting Damien Chazelle's La la land
Part V. Conclusions. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.

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