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In the Shadow of Hollywood Orientalism: Authentic East Indian Dancing
What is the difference between ``hoofing for a buck'' and performing authentic dances from other cultures? Is it true that ``authentic reconstructions'' are ``too artyf f' or cabaret, film, and nightclub entertainment? And what happens when moves from authentic dance forms a...
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Visual Anthropology, 17: 69-98, 2004
2004
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| Accés en línia: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/001329.pdf |
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| 520 | |a What is the difference between ``hoofing for a buck'' and performing authentic dances from other cultures? Is it true that ``authentic reconstructions'' are ``too artyf f' or cabaret, film, and nightclub entertainment? And what happens when moves from authentic dance forms are appropriated, distorted, and so changed that they are unrecognizable to originators and practitioners of the form? These and other questions regarding commercialism, Orientalism, and authenticity are addressed in this essay, which finally contextualizes them in current postmodern discourse. Drawing upon Adrienne McLean's admirable essay, ``The Thousand Ways there are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole'' from Bernstein and Studlar's Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film [1997], I examine several provocative subjects: ``Paying the Piper;'' ``Language Analogies and Wannabees;'' and ``Knowers and the Known.'' I reach a provisional conclusion that, to anyone whose conception of East Indian dancing is based upon Hollywood's Orientalism, authentic work goes unrecognized and is often viewed as strange because it does not confirm to the images of ``Hindu routines,'' ``Oriental (or Exotic) dance,'' or ``American Show Dancing.' | ||
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