Events Okategoriserade New book by the Dance in Nordic Spaces project
The scholars of the Nordic Dance in Nordic Spaces project have published a new book at Tapir forlag, Trondheim. This book fills a gap in existing dance studies literature on the Nordic countries, and contains eight chapters addressing different aspects of the role of dance in the formation of Norden.
Published on nordicspaces.com on November 23, 2011
Book description:
What is the role of dance in the formation of the geopolitical region known as the Nordic Countries or Norden? In this book a group of dance scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden shed light on the topic by juxtaposing material relating to theatrical, folkloric and social dancing in the 20th and 21st centuries. Contextualized in the wider cultural and political making of the region, the chapters relate dance to questions of emerging nations, canon building, local variations of global trends and democratic practices in the arts.
The book is intended for an international readership with an interest in dance in all its manifestations.
The book is edited by Karen Vedel. It contains the following contributions:
Karen Vedel: Dance and the Formation of Norden
Petri Hoppu: National Dances and Popular Education – The Formation of Folk Dance
Canons in Norden
Anne Fiskvik and Egil Bakka: Tracing Dance Fields
Karen Vedel: Strategically Nordic. Articulating the Internal Logic of the Field
Mats Nilsson: Participatory Dancing – the Polska Case
Inger Damsholt: Nordic Night Fever
Lena Hammergren: Dance and Democracy in Norden
All authors: Reflexive Notes. A Conclusion
Read more at
http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/node/1656
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Jonas Harvard
Manager for the Nordic Spaces programme, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. Research fellow at the Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University. Leader of the Distant News and Local Opinion project.
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