Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice
Music, Dance, and Women's Cultural Identity
Published on 1. September 2004
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-275-98240-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
637 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-98240-9 (9780275982409)
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Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice
Music, Dance, and Women's Cultural Identity
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Person
LAURA LENGEL is Associate Professor, School of Communication Studies, Bowling Green State University. She began researching women and performance as a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia. She is also the author of Culture and Technology in the New Europe (Ablex, 2000).
Content
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