1st Edition

Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul

By Melin Levent Yuna Copyright 2022
196 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdoğan. In this book, Melin Levent Yuna questions why a dance that appears to publicly represent an erotic relationship finds space to expand and increase... Read more

Preface

Introduction

I  Concepts and tools: Contemporary self, identity, class, and more

A Reintroduction

II  Leisure, consumption, and class – One mode of being an upper-middle class

III  Becoming the conteporary tango dancer: Bailemos el Tango

IV  One mode of being an upper – middle class in Istanbul – Bodies, self, and the attached meanings, Part I

V  Bodies, self, and the attached meanings, Part II

VI  Bodies, self, and the attached meanings, Part III

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Melin Levent Yuna is a sociologist and a cultural anthropologist at Acıbadem University, teaching various classes on these areas. In addition to her MA in sociology and PhD in cultural anthropology, she is a tango dancer herself, and has had a deep interest in Argentine tango dancing for many years.