Laura Lengel

Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice (eBook, PDF)

Music, Dance, and Women's Cultural Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

Lengel takes the reader on a journey from India and Romania, where women preserve cultural rituals through mourning songs, to South Africa, where the body is a site of struggle for meaning and power in contemporary dance. This volume examines the interrelationship of cultural and national identity, ethnicity, gender, performance, and lived experience. It offers an understanding of how music and dance function within the lives of its performers and audiences, and how they embody meaning, carry social value, and act as a vehicle for intercultural communication. This book analyzes the communicative impact of women's cultural products and creative practice and creates links across disciplines such as communication, cultural studies, and performance studies. Contributors have lived, researched, and performed in the United States, Australia, Belize, Barbados, Canada, China, England, India, the Pacific, Romania, and Yemen. Their chapters address women's creative performance as a means of political and ideological expression.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313057885
• Artikelnr.: 72315652

Autorenporträt

LAURA LENGEL is Associate Professor in communications at Richmond American International University in London. Her publications, which have appeared in Journal of Communication Inquiry and Convergence, The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, address technology, gender studies, and critical ethnographic field research.

Inhaltsangabe

Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice: Dance, Music and Women's
Cultural Identity by Laura Lengel Preface by Lengel Intercultural
Communication and Creative Practice by Laura Lengel Voicing the Unspoken:
'Interculturally' Connecting Race, Gender and Nation in Women's Creative
Practice by Lliane Loots Moving Contexts: Dance and Difference in the 21st
Century by Ann Cooper Albright Claiming the Empire: Women's Marginalization
in 19th Century Ballet and Opera by Margaret Lindley Dance of the Red Dog:
Na Wahine Kumu Hula and Hawai'ian Cultural Identity by Fay Yokomizo Akindes
The Feminist vs. the Dancing Girl: The Devadasis, the Indian Women's
Movement and a Lost Opportunity by Teresa Hubel Corporeality and Discipline
of the Performing Body: Women, Representation, and International Ballet
Companies by Ginger Bihn and Paige P. Edley Vietnamese Women Performing
Artists: Making a Song and Dance Out of Patriarchal Submission by Ly Hoang
Nguyen Rudaali (The Crier): Performing the Music of Mourning by Priya
Kapoor Romanian Dirge: Women's Ritualistic Narratives of Life and Death as
Cultural Construction of Identity in Southeastern Europe by Noemi Marin
Gender, Genre, Race and Identity in Barbadian Female Musicianship by Keri
McClean Shifting the Performance Characteristics of Opera and the Status
Quo for Women in China by Xiaoyu Xiao and D. Ray Heisey Marriage Customs as
Creative Practice among Yemeni Women by Margaret Curtis Women's
Stages/Women's Management: An International Study by Sharon Foley Shifting
Matriarchal Traditions to the Mainstream: Articulating Ethnicity, Gender,
Nation and Cultural Identity through Creative Practice by Laura Lengel