Dancing Jewish : Jewish identity in american modern and postmodern dance / Rebecca Rossen

By:

Rossen, Rebecca [autor]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Description: XVII, 312 pàgines : il·lustracions ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

sense mediació

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9780199791767
9780199791774

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Contents:

Conté: Introduction -- Prelude: Make Me a Jewish Dance -- Act I: Dancing the Jew -- Chapter 1: The Dancing Jew(ess): Ethnic Ambiguity and Hasidic Drag -- Chapter 2: Biblical Heroines and Anti-Heroines -- Chapter 3: The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick -- Entr'acte: Make Me a Jewish Dance -- Act II: Dancing Jewish -- Chapter 4: Dancing Folk: Jewish Memory and Amnesia -- Chapter 5: Dancing Zionism, Embodying Conflict -- Conclusion: Dancing Jewish, Dancing American -- Curtain Call: Dance Me My Jewish Dance -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary: "While Jews are commonly referred to as the "People of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new possibilities for themselves as individuals, artists, and Jews. Dancing Jewish delineates this rich history, demonstrating that Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but that they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in the history of Jews in the United States. A dancer and choreographer, as well as an historian, author Rebecca Rossen offers evocative analyses of dances while asserting the importance of embodied methodologies to academic research. Featuring over fifty images, a companion website, and key works from 1930 to 2005 by a wide range of artists - including David Dorfman, Dan Froot, David Gordon, Hadassah, Margaret Jenkins, Pauline Koner, Dvora Lapson, Liz Lerman, Victoria Marks, Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, and Benjamin Zemach - Dancing Jewish offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting performance and establishes dance as a crucial site in which American Jews have grappled with cultural belonging, personal and collective histories, and the values that bind and pull them apart." -- Contracoberta

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	793.5(73) ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900078660

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"While Jews are commonly referred to as the "People of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new possibilities for themselves as individuals, artists, and Jews. Dancing Jewish delineates this rich history, demonstrating that Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but that they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in the history of Jews in the United States. A dancer and choreographer, as well as an historian, author Rebecca Rossen offers evocative analyses of dances while asserting the importance of embodied methodologies to academic research. Featuring over fifty images, a companion website, and key works from 1930 to 2005 by a wide range of artists - including David Dorfman, Dan Froot, David Gordon, Hadassah, Margaret Jenkins, Pauline Koner, Dvora Lapson, Liz Lerman, Victoria Marks, Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, and Benjamin Zemach - Dancing Jewish offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting performance and establishes dance as a crucial site in which American Jews have grappled with cultural belonging, personal and collective histories, and the values that bind and pull them apart." -- Contracoberta

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