Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice: Music, Dance, and Women's Cultural Identity

by Laura Lengel

Book Overview

Lengel takes the reader on a journey from India and Romania, where women preserve cultural rituals through mourning songs, to South Africa, where the body is a site of struggle for meaning and power in contemporary dance. This volume examines the interrelationship of cultural and national identity, ethnicity, gender, performance, and lived experience. It offers an understanding of how music and dance function within the lives of its performers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275982408
• ISBN13: 9780275982409
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"