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Learning Senegalese Sabar : Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar / Eleni Bizas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dance and Performance Studies ; 6Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782382560
  • 9781782382577
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.809663 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1588.6 .B59 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Senegal in Africa -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Transatlantic Travels of West African Dance -- Chapter 2 The New York Dance Floor -- Chapter 3 Navigating Transatlantic Flows -- Chapter 4 Re-choreographing Sabar -- Chapter 5 The Kinaesthetic of Sabar -- Chapter 6 Hearing Movements, Seeing Rhythms -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways of learning, in each context. Pointing to a loose network of teachers and students who travel between New York and Dakar around the practice of West African dance forms, the author discusses how this movement is maintained, what role the imagination plays in mobilizing participants and how the ‘cultural flow’ of the dances is ‘punctuated’ by national borders and socio-economic relationships. She explores the different meanings articulated around Sabar’s transatlantic movement and examines how the dance floor provides the grounds for contested understandings, socio-economic relationships and broader discourses to be re-choreographed in each setting.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Senegal in Africa -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Transatlantic Travels of West African Dance -- Chapter 2 The New York Dance Floor -- Chapter 3 Navigating Transatlantic Flows -- Chapter 4 Re-choreographing Sabar -- Chapter 5 The Kinaesthetic of Sabar -- Chapter 6 Hearing Movements, Seeing Rhythms -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways of learning, in each context. Pointing to a loose network of teachers and students who travel between New York and Dakar around the practice of West African dance forms, the author discusses how this movement is maintained, what role the imagination plays in mobilizing participants and how the ‘cultural flow’ of the dances is ‘punctuated’ by national borders and socio-economic relationships. She explores the different meanings articulated around Sabar’s transatlantic movement and examines how the dance floor provides the grounds for contested understandings, socio-economic relationships and broader discourses to be re-choreographed in each setting.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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