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Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger... Lees meer.

In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu... Lees meer.

Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influences on Wagner the revolutionary who turned the world of opera upside down. Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influenc... Lees meer.

In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhamb... Lees meer.

Where did big bands and swing music go. They didn t leave. . . but many Americans actually believe they disappeared along with ballrooms jukeboxes bobby sox and zoot suits decades ago. Band leader Brooks Tegler who has recreated the great music of World War II with... Lees meer.

Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger... Lees meer.

In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu... Lees meer.

This book explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites social status transition rites and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s the essays present descripti... Lees meer.

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In Los Angeles night after night the city s salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender race and class and of nationality citizenship and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives Cindy G... Lees meer.

Grassroots social movements played a major role in electing new left-leaning governments throughout Latin America but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy. In Dancing with Dynamite Benjamin Dangl explores the complex ways these movemen... Lees meer.