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Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage

Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage

Meftahi, Ida

Paperback

Series: Iranian Studies

DanceGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0815348835
ISBN13: 9780815348832
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2017
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, its space of performance, and spectatorial cultural ideology, this book traces the dancing body in multiple milieus of performance, including the Pahlavi era's national artistic scene and the popular café and cabaret stages, as well as the commercial cinematic screen and the post-revolutionary Islamized theatrical stage. It links the socio-political discourses on performance with the staged public dancer, in order to interrogate the formation of dominant categories of modern, high, and artistic, and the subsequent othering of cultural realms that were discursively peripheralized from the national stage. Through the study of archival and ethnographic research as well as a diverse literature pertaining to music, theater, cinema, and popular culture, it combines a close reading of primary sources such as official documents, press materials, and program notes with visual analysis of filmic materials and imageries, as well as interviews with practitioners. It offers an original and informed exploration into the ways performing bodies and their public have been associated with binary notions of vice and virtue, morality and immorality, commitment and degeneration, chastity and eroticism, and veiled-ness and nakedness.

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