The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender and Sexuality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781859739099)

The late nineteenth century witnessed the birth and popularization of a number of highly emotional musical styles that played on the eagerness of modern Europeans and Americans to toy with the limits of sanity and to taste the ecstasies of living on the edge. This absorbing book explores these popular, passionate musical styles -- which include flamenco, tango and rebetika -- and points out that they arose as well-intentioned intellectuals co-opted the emotional experiences most closely associated with women. In drawing those experiences out of female practice, they defined, objectified, and turned them into strategies of domination, the deepest impact of which was felt, ironically, by modern women.In bridging anthropology, sociology, cultural, media, body and gender studies, this book broadens the base of theory which has ignored the transnational world of Latin and Mediterranean popular culture and makes a powerful statement about the intersection of nationalism, sexuality, identity and authenticity.

Author: William Washabaugh
ISBN-10: 1859739091
ISBN-13: 9781859739099
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1998
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.47w x 0.50d