Dancing in the Dust
Title | Dancing in the Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Kagiso Lesego Molope |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Apartheid |
ISBN |
Raising Dust
Title | Raising Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Rowe |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2010-04-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0857716050 |
Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, or rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st Century, dance in Palestine has a rich and elusive story that remains to be told. 'Raising Dust' traces one dancer's journey into Palestine's past and present. Through historical archives, the memories of dancers of yesteryear and into today's vibrant performing arts scene, Nicholas Rowe shows how dance has acted as a barometer of social change, a forum for debate and a means of expressing forbidden ideas. Far from apolitical, this most physical of art forms has often defined the political mood of the day. Sumptuously illustrated, the author provides a unique, rare and compelling cultural history of dance in Palestine.
Dancing in the Dust
Title | Dancing in the Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Gwendolyn Pendraig |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2017-04-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781521097656 |
After surviving the plague that wiped out her family and most of the warm blooded life on Earth, Ayla has spent ten years in relative solitude surviving, and against all odds, thriving. Ayla's world gets a whole lot bigger when she finds a fascinating new canine companion. Along the way she picks herself up a nemesis, a needless distraction and a new approach to post-apocalyptic life. Capable of devastating violence and deep compassion, our anti-heroine walks an almost invisible line, navigating her own morality in a world where the concept doesn't exist anymore. An uniquely female perspective on the challenges of surviving in a world ruled by the violent and strong, this is not for the faint hearted or easily disturbed. Please be aware this book contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence, and scenes that some readers may find disturbing.
Dust of the Zulu
Title | Dust of the Zulu PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Meintjes |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2017-07-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0822373637 |
In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant labor, the HIV epidemic, and the world music market, Meintjes follows a community ngoma team and its professional subgroup during the twenty years after apartheid's end. She intricately ties aesthetics to politics, embodiment to the voice, and masculine anger to eloquence and virtuosity, relating the visceral experience of ngoma performances as they embody the expanse of South African history. Meintjes also shows how ngoma helps build community, cultivate responsible manhood, and provide its participants with a means to reconcile South Africa's past with its postapartheid future. Dust of the Zulu includes over one hundred photographs of ngoma performances, the majority taken by award-winning photojournalist TJ Lemon.
Dancing in the Streets
Title | Dancing in the Streets PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2007-12-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780805057249 |
"Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."--Terry Eagleton, The Nation Widely praised as "impressive" (The Washington Post Book World), "ambitious" (The Wall Street Journal), and "alluring" (The Los Angeles Times), Dancing in the Streets explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. From the earliest orgiastic Mesopotamian rites to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion" and the transgressive freedoms of carnival, she demonstrates that mass festivities have long been central to the Western tradition. In recent centuries, this festive tradition has been repressed, cruelly and often bloodily. But as Ehrenreich argues in this original, exhilarating, and ultimately optimistic book, the celebratory impulse is too deeply ingrained in human nature ever to be completely extinguished.
Dancing on My Ashes
Title | Dancing on My Ashes PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Gilion |
Publisher | Tate Publishing |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2010-05 |
Genre | Bereavement |
ISBN | 1607998718 |
Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.
Dead Girl Dancing
Title | Dead Girl Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Joy Singleton |
Publisher | North Star Editions, Inc. |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2010-09-08 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0738722073 |
Apparently, this freaky phenomenon of stepping into someone else’s life—and their body!—has a name: Temp Lifer. Thanks to my dead grandmother, it’s happened again. So now I’m hungover and gazing in the mirror at ... my boyfriend’s sister. Grammy, help!