Dance and Authoritarianism: These Boots Are Made for Dancing by Shay, Anthony

Dance and Authoritarianism: These Boots Are Made for Dancing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781789383522)

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Dance and Authoritarianism: These Boots Are Made for Dancing by Shay, Anthony

Dance and Authoritarianism: These Boots Are Made for Dancing

$33.00
Dance and Authoritarianism: These Boots Are Made for Dancing by Shay, Anthony

Dance and Authoritarianism: These Boots Are Made for Dancing

$33.00
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Anthony Shay
ISBN-10: 1789383528
ISBN-13: 9781789383522
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2021
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/16/2021 pg. 1
Choice 08/01/2022
By Anthony Shay
By Anthony Shay
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Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies in the Theatre and Dance Department at Pomona College in California. He is the author of six monographs, including The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company, also published by Intellect, and four edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. He is an award-winning dancer and choreographer.

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