1st Edition
The Passion of Music and Dance Body, Gender and Sexuality
Edited By William Washabaugh
Copyright 1998
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1 Introduction: Music, Dance, and the Politics of Passion 2 Flamenco Song: Clean and Dirty 3 Fashioning Masculinity in Flamenco 4 Gendering the Authentic in Spanish Flamenco 5 Carlos Gardel and the Argentine Tango: The Lyric of Social Irresponsibility and Male Inadequacy 6 Tango and the Scandal of Homosocial Desire 7 From Wallflowers to Femmes Fatales: Tango and the Performance of Passionate Femininity 8 Rebetika: The Double-descended Deep Songs of Greece 9 The Tsifte-teli Sermon: Identity, Theology, and Gender in Rebetika, 10 Passionless Dancing and Passionate Reform: Respectability, Modernism, and the Social Dancing of Irene and Vernon Castle 11 Social Theory and the Comparative History of Flamenco, Tango, and Rebetika
Biography
William Washabaugh Professor of Anthropology,University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
