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Title
Cultural dance in Australia : essays on performance contexts beyond the Pale / Jeanette Mollenhauer.
ISBN
9789811959004 (electronic bk.)
9811959005 (electronic bk.)
9789811958991
9811958998
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-19-5900-4 doi
Call Number
GV1715
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4/8460994
Summary
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. This book will be of interest to scholars of dance, performance studies, migration studies and transnationalism. Jeanette Mollenhauer researches immigrants' dance practices in Australia, focusing on cultural identity, transnationalism and multicultural performance. Jeanette is also Vice-President of Folk Dance Australia and a community dance teacher. She serves on the International Council for Traditional Music's Archives Committee and her first book was Dancing at the Southern Crossroads (2020).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 8, 2022).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789811958991
Chapter 1. Preface
Chapter 2. Dance in Diaspora
Chapter 3. The West/Rest Pirouette: Division in the Dance Canon
Chapter 4. Motifs of Migration: Reproducing Dance in a New Environment
Chapter 5. In the Spotlight: Public Performances of Cultural Dance in Australia
Chapter 6. The Shell Folkloric Festival: The Most Prominent Multicultural Event
Chapter 7. Riverdance and the dissolution of cultural boundaries in Australian Irish Dancing
Chapter 8. The Ivory Tower and its Fixed Pointe of Reference
Chapter 9. Borders, Boundaries and Difference
Chapter 10. The White Pages: Australian Dance Writings
Chapter 11. The Need for an Archive of Cultural Dance
Chapter 12. Steps Towards the Future.
