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Dance and authoritarianism : these boots are made for dancing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shay, Anthony, 1936-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Chicago : Intellect Books Ltd, Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Dance > Political aspects.
Dance > Anthropological aspects.
Folk dancing.
Authoritarianism.
Iran.
Croatia.
Spain.
Dominican Republic.
Uzbekistan.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Dance and Authoritarianism
  • The Many Hues of Authoritarianism: Authoritarian States and Regimes
  • Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes
  • Sultanistic Regimes
  • Authoritarianism and Dance
  • Dance for the State
  • Spectacle
  • Monumentality
  • The Festive State
  • Methodology
  • 1. Dance and Ethnicity
  • What Is Ethnicity?
  • Can We Theorize Ethnicity?
  • The Contours of Ethnicity
  • Language
  • 2. Dance and Nationalism: The Nation, the State, and the Nation-State
  • Identities
  • Before Nationalism: The Case of Iranian Ethnic/National Identity
  • The Shahnameh1
  • The Shu'ubiyyah
  • Nationalism, Modern and European?
  • Nationalism and Modernity
  • 3. Iran: The Shah's New Dance
  • Authoritarian Regimes in Iran
  • Iranian Nationalism
  • The 2500th Year of the Monarchy Celebration, October 1971
  • Choreophobia
  • Dance in Iran and Its Political Uses
  • The Iranian State Folk Dance Ensembles
  • Music and Dance
  • 4. Croatia: Lado-"Light of Croatian Culture."
  • Balkanism
  • Ethnogenesis of the Croats
  • The Coming of the Slavs to the Balkans
  • Slavs into Croats: The Early Middle Ages
  • Christianity
  • The First Independent Croatian Kingdom
  • Croatia under Foreign Rule 1100-1800
  • Ottoman Domination
  • Frustration and Growth, 1797-1918
  • The Beginnings of Croatian Nationalism
  • The Struggle to Form the First Yugoslavia (1918-41)
  • The First Yugoslavia: 1918-41
  • World War II and the Great Civil War
  • The Ustaša-The Croatian Fascist State
  • The Partisans
  • The New Yugoslavia-1945-66
  • Political Conditions
  • Life in Croatia
  • Maspok, the Croatian Spring
  • Economic Issues
  • The Yugoslav Economy until 1989
  • The Croatian Economy
  • Yugoslavia 1980-90: Descent into Madness
  • The War of Succession
  • War in Croatia
  • Operations Flash (Bljesak) and Storm (Oluja)-The Phoenix Rises
  • Tudman's Croatia 1991-99
  • Croatia in the Twenty-First Century
  • 5. Spain: Women's Work-Franco's Sección Femenina and Spanish Folk Dance
  • Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War
  • Spain, Franco's Fascist Falange Party, and the Seccíon Femenina
  • 6. Dominican Republic: The Dictator's Fancy Dance-Trujillo, Merengue, and Nationalism
  • Dance and Nationalism, Dance and Race, Dance and Sex
  • The Native American Element
  • The Spanish Element
  • The African Element
  • The First American Invasion
  • Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina and the Trujillo Regime
  • The Second American Invasion
  • Dance and Music of the Dominican Republic
  • Merengue
  • Some Sociological Aspects of Merengue
  • Trujillo and the Merengue
  • Trujillo's Charisma
  • 7. Uzbekistan: Old Lamps for New-The Creation of Uzbek Classical Dance
  • A Brief History of Central Asia
  • The Persian Language and Its Legacy
  • The Uzbek Language
  • Islam
  • The Appearance of the Russians
  • The Creation of the Soviet Union and the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
  • Soviet Uzbekistan
  • Ethnicity in Uzbekistan
  • The Invented Tradition of Uzbek Classical Music and Dance
  • Dance in Uzbekistan
  • The Dancing Boys of Uzbekistan (bacheh, bacha)
  • The Soviets and Uzbek Music
  • Uzbek Classical Dance
  • After the Fall