Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation
- Submitting institution
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Roehampton University
: A - Dance
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Dance
- Output identifier
- 571865
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137462275
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-46226-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph offers the first sustained critical analysis of a unique structured movement system cultivated in Brazil since colonial times and anchored in Africanist aesthetic principles. The approach combines historiography, ethnography and movement analysis, drawing on resources from diverse fields including dance and performance studies, art history, critical race and gender studies, phenomenology, semiotics and Latin American postcolonial studies. The book examines various movement-centred activities, from theatrical, social, and religious dance forms to sports, martial arts, and practices of daily life, arguing that embodied knowledges enacted therein have collectively recuperated-cum-invented an epistemology beyond colonial languages, whose scope exceeds Eurocentric thought.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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