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Srinivasan, Priya.

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Performing Indian dance in America: Interrogating modernity, tradition, and the myth of cultural purity.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing Indian dance in America: Interrogating modernity, tradition, and the myth of cultural purity./
Author:	Srinivasan, Priya.
Description:	293 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0008.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-01A.
Subject:	Dance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3118617
ISBN:	9780496660414

Performing Indian dance in America: Interrogating modernity, tradition, and the myth of cultural purity.
Srinivasan, Priya.

Performing Indian dance in America: Interrogating modernity, tradition, and the myth of cultural purity. - 293 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0008.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2003.

In this dissertation, I investigate women's performance practices in America in the context of the changing political historical economies of immigration and Orientalism that established a binary in dance between traditional and modern. I trace the development of Oriental and modern dance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as part of some white women's cultural and political development. I compare and contrast this history with Bharata Natyam, a late-twentieth-century middle class South Asian diasporic women's dance practice problematically labeled "traditional" and used to perform "model minority" citizenship in America. I demonstrate that the labels under which dance practices in America have been categorized in the twentieth century, that is "traditional" and "modern," are constructed both for and by women performers to negotiate male dominance, albeit in contradictory ways. For example, Oriental dancer, Ruth St. Denis, used Asian philosophies to construct her dance career and emerge as an economically independent, modern, female choreographer in the early part of the twentieth century at the expense of Nautch dancers from India from whom she took many ideas. However, as Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, dancers from St. Denis's company, broke away to create independent work, St. Denis was labeled out-of-date as Graham and Humphrey emerged as modern figures.

ISBN: 9780496660414Subjects--Topical Terms:

610547
Dance.

Performing Indian dance in America: Interrogating modernity, tradition, and the myth of cultural purity.
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