The Dance of the Islands
The Dance of the Islands

Author: Christy Constantakopoulou

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-07-29

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0191615455

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Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions of insularity in classical Greek thought. Geographic analysis of insularity emphasizes the interplay between island isolation and island interaction, but the predominance of islands in the Aegean sea made island isolation almost impossible. Rather, island connectivity was an important feature of the history of the Aegean and was expressed on many levels. Constantakopoulou investigates island interaction in two prominent areas, religion and imperial politics, examining both the religious networks located on islands in the ancient Greek world and the impact of imperial politics on the Aegean islands during the fifth century.

Moving Islands
Moving Islands

Author: Diana Looser

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0472132385

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A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance
Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance

Author: Yvonne Daniel

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2011-12-15

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0252036530

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In Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship, Yvonne Daniel provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres. In discussing relationships among African, Caribbean, and other diasporic dances, Daniel investigates social dances brought to the islands by Europeans and Africans, including quadrilles and drum-dances as well as popular dances that followed, such as Carnival parading, Pan-Caribbean danzas,rumba, merengue, mambo, reggae, and zouk. Daniel reviews sacred dance and closely documents combat dances, such as Martinican ladja, Trinidadian kalinda, and Cuban juego de maní. In drawing on scores of performers and consultants from the region as well as on her own professional dance experience and acumen, Daniel adeptly places Caribbean dance in the context of cultural and economic globalization, connecting local practices to transnational and global processes and emphasizing the important role of dance in critical regional tourism.

Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk
Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk

Author: Susanna Sloat

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780813029047

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Caribbean Dance is an overview of the dances from each of this region's major islands and the complex, fused, and layered cultures that gave birth to them.

Moving Oceans
Moving Oceans

Author: Ralph Buck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1317341694

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Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections.

Making Caribbean Dance
Making Caribbean Dance

Author: Susanna Sloat

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780813034676

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From the evolution of Indian dance in Trinidad to the barely known rituals of los misterios in the Domincan Republic, this volume looks closely at the vibrant & varied movement vocabulary of the islands.

Dance on the Volcano
Dance on the Volcano

Author: Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 0914671588

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Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover.

Island Possessed
Island Possessed

Author: Katherine Dunham

Publisher: Doubleday

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0307819841

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Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences that she was often lucky to survive. Here Dunham tells how the island came to be possessed by the demons of voodoo and other cults imported from various parts of Africa, as well as by the deep class divisions, particularly between blacks and mulattos, and the political hatred still very much in evidence today. Full of the flare and suspense of immersion in a strange and enchanting culture, Island Possessed is also a pioneering work in the anthropology of dance and a fascinating document on Haitian politics and voodoo.