OHB DANCE & ETHNICITY OHBK C

With a rich collection from thirty international contributors who present wide and diverse dance traditions and conceptual and theoretical approaches, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity fills a gap in dance knowledge. The bountiful essays come from the fields of African and African American studies, anthropology, classical studies, creative arts, critical and cultural studies, dance, folklore, history, linguistics, media studies, musicology, performance studies, physical education and sport, religion, and theater arts Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young achieve their stated goal in the Handbooknamely, to acknowledge the depth and breadth of research conducted on what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category broadly conceptualized, and to explore how the dance can embody such ethnic identification within specific historical and lived contexts. Dance Chronicle