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Intercultural communication and creative practice : music, dance, and women's cultural identity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lengel, Laura B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.
Subjects:
Women > Identity > Cross-cultural studies.
Women in the performing arts > Cross-cultural studies.
Cognition and culture > Cross-cultural studies.
Communication and culture.
Intercultural communication.
Table of Contents:
  • Intercultural communication and creative practice : resistance, convergence, and transformation / Laura Lengel
  • Voicing the unspoken : "interculturally" connecting race, gender, and nation in women's creative practice / Lliane Loots
  • Moving contexts : dance and difference in the Twenty-first century / Ann Cooper Albright
  • Creation, recreation, and re-creating identities : performance and interculturality in a global context / Victoria Ann Newsom and Ako Inuzuka
  • Dance of the red dog : na wahine kumu hula as protectors of Hawaiian culture / Fay Yokomizo Akindes
  • Rudaali (the crier) : performing the music of mourning / Priya Kapoor
  • Romanian dirge : women's ritualistic narratives of life and death as cultural constructions of identity in southeastern Europe / Noemi Marin
  • The high cost of dancing : when the Indian women's movement went after the Devadasis / Teresa Hubel
  • The construction of gender, genre, race, and identity in Barbadian female musicianship / Keri McClean
  • Vietnamese women performing artists : making a song and dance of patriarchal submission / Ly Hoang VoDoan
  • Marriage customs as creative practice among Yemeni women / E. Margaret Curtis-Howe
  • Shifting the performative characteristics of opera and the status quo for women in China / Xiaoyu Xiao and D. Ray Heisey
  • Corporeality and discipline of the performing body : representations of international ballet companies / Paige P. Edley and Ginger Bihn
  • Man creates, woman plays : (re)claiming the creative process in ballet and opera / Margaret Lindley
  • Managing creative practice : an international study of women in arts management / Sharon Foley
  • Shifting matriarchal traditions to the mainstream : articulating gender, ethnicity, nation, and identity through creative practice / Laura Lengel.