Learning Senegalese Sabar

Learning Senegalese Sabar
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : 9781782382577
ISBN-13 : 1782382577
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Book Synopsis Learning Senegalese Sabar by : Eleni Bizas

Download or read book Learning Senegalese Sabar written by Eleni Bizas and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways of learning, in each context. Pointing to a loose network of teachers and students who travel between New York and Dakar around the practice of West African dance forms, the author discusses how this movement is maintained, what role the imagination plays in mobilizing participants and how the ‘cultural flow’ of the dances is ‘punctuated’ by national borders and socio-economic relationships. She explores the different meanings articulated around Sabar’s transatlantic movement and examines how the dance floor provides the grounds for contested understandings, socio-economic relationships and broader discourses to be re-choreographed in each setting.


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