Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: Dancing with Memory
	Embodied Memory: Interdisciplinary Movements Between Memory and Popular Dance
	Mapping the Terrain
	References
Part I: Pedagogic Invocations of Afro-Diasporic Memory
	Tap Dance and Cultural Memory: Shuffling with My Dancestors
		Defining Dancestry as a Facet of Cultural Memory
		Tap Dancestry: Respecting the Past, Revising in the Present
		Classic Choreographies as Dancestral Inheritance
		Maintaining Dancestral Inheritance: Embodying Named and Unnamed Dancestors
		Bibliography
	“Salsa con Afro”: Remembering and Reenacting Afro-Cuban Roots in the Global Cuban and Latin Dance Communities
		“A Que Le Llaman ‘Salsa’ Si Esto Es Son?”1
		“Une Vraie Sauce”
		Rumba: “The Forbidden Black Dance”
		Orishas: “And What Do You Want Them to Give You?”
		“But Where Is the (Rueda de) Casino?”
		“Ya Es Muy Rico”
		“Una Onda Gozadera”
		Bibliography
	Between Creolisation and Kinaesthetic Transnationalism: Zumba Fitness as Mimetic Parody and Ritual Re-enactment
		Introduction
		Situating Zumba: Between Popular Dance and Cultural Memory
		Mimesis and Alterity
		Parody and the Carnivalesque
		Incorporated Practices and Commemorative Ceremonies
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part II: Manipulated Memory and Reclamation
	Parading the Past, Taming the New: From Ragtime to Rock and Roll
		Cultural Memory and Remembering the Past
		Irene and Vernon Castle
		Arthur and Kathryn Murray
		References
	Queer Tango—Bent History? The Late-Modern Uses and Abuses of Historical Imagery Showing Men Dancing Tango with Each Other
		Tango and ‘Men Dancing with Men’: A Contested History
		Representations of Men Dancing Tango with Other Men
		Queer Tango: Historical and Theoretical Contexts
		Online Image Searching: Dodges and Dangers
		Images in Contexts and the Generation of Meanings
			Type 1. Mainstream Websites with Content About Tango or Queer Tango
			Type 2. Mainstream, User-Generated Web Pages Such as Pinterest
			Type 3. Mainstream Tango Websites
			Type 4. Queer/LGBT Websites
			Type 5. Queer Tango Online Presences
		Concluding Remarks
		References
	Bomba Cimarrona: Hip Interactions in the Afro-Ecuadorian Bomba del Chota as a Decolonial Means to Remember
		Afrodescendants in Ecuador
		The Categories of the Bomba Event
		Bomba Cimarrona and Collective Memories
		Transmitting Collective Memories Through Bomba Cimarrona Dancers’ Hips
		Collective Memories of Freedom in Bomba Cimarrona: Hip-Pushing While Dancing
		References
	Youthful Bodies as Mnemonic Artifacts: Traversing the Cultural Terrain from Traditional to Popular Dances in Post-independent Ghana
		Background
		Theoretical Underpinnings of Dancing Bodies as Cultural Memories
		Popular Dance and Some Theoretical Frameworks
		Bases of Some Mnemonic Artifacts in Postcolonial Ghanaian Popular Dance
		Key Movements in Azonto and Their Mnemonic Elements
			Toh nɔ or Ironing Movements
			Aaka or Drying Movements
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: National Memories and Amnesias
	Csángó Space and Time in the Hungarian Táncház Revival
		Introduction
		Ildikó’s Return
		Unstable Transitions and Distant Pasts
		The Search for a National Dance
		Opening the Doors
		Conclusion
		References
	National Identity in Philippine Folk Dance: Changing Focus from the Cariñosa to Tinikling
		Nationalism and Folk Dance
		Aquino and the Beginnings of Collection
		The Maria Clara Suite
		Visualised and Embodied Strategies of Representation
		Gender Identity
		The Rural Suite
		Conclusions
		References
	Archive and Memory in Cuban Dances: The Performance of Memory and the Dancing Body as Archive in the Making
		Popular Dances in Cuban Archives
		Conjunto Folklórico Nacional: Intersecting Temporalities of Archive and Performance
		Body, Memory and Transmission
		Conclusion
		References
	Courting Disaster (“I Don’t Remember Anymore”): The Forgetful Dancer and the Body Politic in The Sound of Music (1965)
		Dancing the Body Politic: A Choreonecrology of the Forgetful Dancer
		Austria and the Pastoral Ländler
		The Ländler, Memory, and World War Two
		The Dis-Ease of Forgetting, the Disastrous Body
		References
Part IV: Im/mediate Memories
	Feeling with, Moving Toward: Empathetic Attunement as Dance Reconstruction Methodology
		Introduction
		New Materialism and Performance Studies
		A New Materialist Approach to Dance Reconstruction
		Empathetic Attunement
		Conclusions
		References
	Mother Tongue: Dance and Memory, an Autobiographical Excavation
		References
	Filmed, Felt, and False Rhythms: Dance Videos and an Embodying “Home” in Post-migration
		Dance/Music Lineages
		New Proximities and Shifting Identifications
		The Sensory Experience of Dance on Film
		Conclusion: Holding Post-migrants Accountable
		References
	The Transmission of Nostalgia and (Be)Longing in Popular Screendance, or Recollecting Damien Chazelle’s La La Land
		Prelude: Recalling La La Land
		Remembering Nostalgia
		(Re)Collecting Memory: La La Land’s Restorative Nostalgia
		Postlude: La La Land’s Reflective Nostalgic Aftermath
		References
Part V: Conclusions
	Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget
		Bibliography
Index