Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget

1. Introduction.- 2. Mother Tongue: Dance and Language, an Autobiographical Excavation.- 3. From danz?n to salsa. Archives, dancing body and cultural memory in Cuba.- 4. Feeling With, Moving Toward: Empathetic Attunement as Dance Reconstruction Methodology.- 5. The tanda and Afro-Argentine memory: Remembering Black Buenos Aires through tango.- 6. Salsa con "Afro".- 7. Dancing the Gone-Too-Soon, Re-Membering Slavery's Persistent Wound: Young Black Ghosts in Popular American Performance.- 8. Embodying and transmitting cultural memory through tap dance: Shuffling with my dancestors.- 9. Recognizing sources, not being copies: Constructions of cultural memory and "ownership" by French urban dancers.- 10. Learning dances, forgetting borders: Embodied national remembering and the role of the ethnographer in the Hungarian t?nch?z revival.- 11. Limbo like me: 'limberness' and refugee experience.- 12. From Colonial Subject to Independence: Cari?osa and Tinikling.- 13. Youthful Bodies as Mnemonic Artifacts: Traversing the Cultural Terrain from Traditional to Popular Dances in Post Independent Ghana.- 14. Dance Performance and Memory in Post-War Peru.- 15. Beyond the hips: The Afro-Ecuadorian dance of Bomba in Chota-Mira Valley as an affective space to remember.- 16. "What When I Yearn to Dance Along!?" - The Transmission of (Be)Longing and Nostalgia in Popular Screendance.- 17. Parading the Past, Taming the New: Popular Dance Excursions.- 18. Speaking the Unspeakable: the cancan and the classical canon.- 19. Dionysus meets neoliberalism: Zumba Fitness as an example of Zorbitality.- 20. Bent History? The Late-Modern Uses and Abuses of Historical Imagery Showing Men Dancing Tango with Each Other.- 21. Conclusions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030710823
• ISBN13: 9783030710828
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"