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

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Author / Creator:	Bizas, Eleni.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Dance and performance studies ; volume 6 Dance and performance studies ; v. 6.
Subject:	Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- Senegal. Dance, Black -- Africa, West -- Influence. Dance -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York. Dance -- Study and teaching -- Senegal -- Dakar. Dance -- Anthropological aspects. Dance -- Study and teaching. West Africa. New York (State) -- New York. Senegal. Senegal -- Dakar.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398212

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ISBN:	9781782382577 1782382577 1782382569 9781782382560 9781306465229 1306465222
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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 maintai.
Other form:	Print version: 9781306465229

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