Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0863566286
ISBN-13
9780863566288
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Publisher
Saqi Books
Imprint
Saqi Books
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2010
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
584 grams
Dimensions
22.00 x 17.40 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
DanceGender studies: women
Ksh 2,900.00
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Features a celebration of female dancers of the Arab world. This book traces the origins of this ancient art, which survived in the face of commercialism, religious disapproval and changing times. It demonstrates how Arabic dance came to be influenced by Western ideas about art and entertainment.
Newly updated and lavishly illustrated, this classic celebration of female dancers of the Arab world is available in an appealing new format. "Serpent of the Nile" traces the origins of this ancient art, which survived in the face of commercialism, religious disapproval and changing times. Wendy Buonaventura demonstrates how Arabic dance came to be influenced by Western ideas about art and entertainment. But the influence was two-way. In the heyday of Orientalism, Arabic dance captured the imagination of writers and artists such as Flaubert, David Roberts and Jean-Leon Gerome, and imitators Colette and Mata Hari. Often based on common fantasies about Middle-Eastern women, this obsession produced evocative images and inspired fashion, theatre and popular entertainment.
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