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1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
| Summary |
How dance and mass movement are used as a political tool by political regimes, especially authoritarian governments, as a way of showing symbolic mass support for the regime. Such regimes require spectacle to present them as protectors of the ethnic and national identities of their subjects, represented by the costumed folk dancers. 18 b/w illus. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Dance -- Political aspects.
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Dance -- Political aspects. |
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Dance. |
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Dance -- Anthropological aspects.
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Dance -- Anthropological aspects. |
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Folk dancing.
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Folk dancing. |
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Authoritarianism.
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Authoritarianism. |
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Iran.
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Iran. |
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Croatia.
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Croatia. |
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Spain.
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Spain. |
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Dominican Republic.
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Uzbekistan.
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Dominican Republic. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books. |
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Uzbekistan. |
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e-books. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shay, Anthony. Dance and Authoritarianism. Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, ©2020 9781789383522 |
| ISBN |
9781789383546 ebook |
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1789383544 ebook |
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9781789383522 |
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