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Dance and Authoritarianism: These Boots Are Made for Dancing

by Anthony Shay
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781789383522
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Intellect (UK)
  • Publisher Imprint: Intellect (UK)
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 312
  • Original Price: GBP 25.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 646 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Dance / Folk and Art & Politics

How dance and mass movement are used as a political tool by political regimes, especially authoritarian governments, as a way of showing symbolic mass support for the regime. Such regimes require spectacle to present them as protectors of the ethnic and national identities of their subjects, represented by the costumed folk dancers. 18 b/w illus.

Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies in the Theatre and Dance Department at Pomona College in California. He is the author of six monographs, including The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company, also published by Intellect, and four edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. He is an award-winning dancer and choreographer.

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