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Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice Music, Dance, and Women's Cultural Identity
Laura Lengel
ISBN: 0-275-98240-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98240-9
312 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2004
List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £74.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
About the Author: 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).
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