Abject Masculinity
Argentine Tango
Belly Dance
body politics in music
Carlos Gardel
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Contemporary Societies
dance
Dance Floor
emotional expression in dance research
emotional musical styles
Enrique Morente
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ethnomusicology
Female Construct
Flamenco Artistry
Flamenco Dance
Flamenco Music
Flamenco Tradition
gender performance studies
homosexuality
Markos Vamvakaris
masculinity in performance
Mediterranean cultural identity
Military Junta
modern Europeans
Paco De
passionate musical styles
Ragtime Dance
Rebetika Songs
Saura's Film
Tango Argentino
Tango Dance
Tango Lyrics
Tango Tours
transnational popular culture
Vernon Castle
White America
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781859739099
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The late nineteenth century witnessed the birth and popularization of a number of highly emotional musical styles that played on the eagerness of modern Europeans and Americans to toy with the limits of sanity and to taste the ecstasies of living on the edge. This absorbing book explores these popular, passionate musical styles -- which include flamenco, tango and rebetika -- and points out that they arose as well-intentioned intellectuals co-opted the emotional experiences most closely associated with women. In drawing those experiences out of female practice, they defined, objectified, and turned them into strategies of domination, the deepest impact of which was felt, ironically, by modern women.In bridging anthropology, sociology, cultural, media, body and gender studies, this book broadens the base of theory which has ignored the transnational world of Latin and Mediterranean popular culture and makes a powerful statement about the intersection of nationalism, sexuality, identity and authenticity.
William Washabaugh Professor of Anthropology,University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
