Dance Circles

Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-147-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Dance and Performance Studies

Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, European agencies used the performing arts as a tool in diplomacy. This had a profound impact on choreographic production and arts markets throughout Africa. In Senegal, choreographic performers have taken to contemporary dance, while continuing to engage with neo-traditional performance, regional genres like the sabar, and the popular dances they grew up with. A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of this multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Kunst, Musik, Tanz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations

List of abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Shifting Faces of Dance

Chapter 2. Cosmopolitan Performing Arts in Twentieth-Century Senegal

Chapter 3. A City Across Waters

Chapter 4. Drums, Sand and Persons

Chapter 5. Images of a Mobile Youth

Chapter 6. The Politics of Neo-Traditional Performance

Chapter 7. Senegalese 'Contemporary Dance' and Global Arts Circuits

Chapter 8. Contemporary Trajectories

Chapter 9. Movement, Imagination, and Self-Fashioning

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies at UCL. She was a researcher at the African Studies Centre in Oxford. Since October 2011, she had been leading a Leverhulme-funded research project on transnational families across Senegal, France and the UK. She the co-editor of Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance (Berghahn Books, 2012).

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies at UCL. She was a researcher at the African Studies Centre in Oxford. Since October 2011, she had been leading a Leverhulme-funded research project on transnational families across Senegal, France and the UK. She the co-editor of Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance (Berghahn Books, 2012).