Before They Were Belly Dancers: European Accounts of Female Entertainers in Egypt, 1760-1870 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kathleen W. FraserAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2014-11-14Pages:308
Language:EnglishPublisher:McFarland & CompanyISBN-13:9780786494330ISBN-10:786494336UPC:9780786494330Book Category:Performing Arts, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Dance, Women's StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCN6PJBZRH
Before They Were Belly Dancers: European Accounts of Female Entertainers in Egypt, 1760-1870
Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as "belly dance." Eyewitness accounts written by European travelers, the major primary source for modern scholars, provide most of the research material. The author shapes these numerou...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:McFarland & CompanyISBN-13:9780786494330ISBN-10:786494336UPC:9780786494330Book Category:Performing Arts, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Dance, Women's StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCN6PJBZRH
Kathleen W. Fraser has had a varied professional career encompassing magazine publishing, foreign development, human rights education, employment equity, and the teaching of essay writing and dance history at the university level. Her dance-related writing has appeared in Dance Research Journal (reviews), Impulse magazine, the UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology, and Canadian Dance: Visions and...
Publisher: McFarland & Company
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