Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity; urbanism; and religiosity across the twentieth century. Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body; its space of performance; and spectatorial cultural ideology; this book traces the dancing body in multiple milieus of performance; including the Pahlavi erarsquo;s national artistic scene and the popular cafeacute; and cabaret stages; as well as the commercial cinematic screen and the post-revolutionary Islamized theatrical stage. It links the socio-political discourses on performance with the staged public dancer; in order to interrogate the formation of dominant categories of "modern;" "high;" and "artistic;" and the subsequent "othering" of cultural realms that were discursively peripheralized from the "national" stage. Through the study of archival and ethnographic research as well as a diverse literature pertaining to music; theater; cinema; and popular culture; it combines a close reading of primary sources such as official documents; press materials; and program notes with visual analysis of filmic materials and imageries; as well as interviews with practitioners. It offers an original and informed exploration into the ways performing bodies and their public have been associated with binary notions of vice and virtue; morality and immorality; commitment and degeneration; chastity and eroticism; and veiled-ness and nakedness. Engaging with a range of methodological and historiographical methods; including postcolonial; performance; and feminist studies; this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East history and Iranian studies; as well as gender studies and dance and performance studies.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Hallelujah Effect is FantasticBy Tom BabichThis book is fantastic. tremendous; The Hallelujah Effect will make you think deeply.It took me nine days to read (unusual) as I had to take breaks from the mental workouts; here are my notes on the book:------------------------------------------------- Begin Hallelujah Effect notes:-----------------------------------------------"The Hallelujah EffectEidetic - pertaining to visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducedS. hoax - Academic who illustrated that playing to the fancies of a scientific editorial board allowed nonsense to be published(Peer review - still presents a paradox. prevents genuinely new ideas)Adorno - German philosopher who examined the implications of radio broadcast and its effect on people; not much has changed(Princeton Radio Project)... dont get one theory; how could Beethoven have heard music corrupted via loudspeaker (timeline)?KD Lang - performer with a powerful voice. who crosses gender boundaries and capitalizes (literally) on the Hallelujah Effect.Characters from the story whom I know:Holgar Schmidtt. German philosopher thinkerDavid Allison. groovy philosopher King*Tracy B. Strong. political philosopher; likes General Tsaos chicken and General Tsao too**"ProofCopy" watermark reaches entropy and achieves critical mass about halfway through the book. a watermark removal tool is in order (I had the pleasure of reading the ProofCopy).The footnotes: they cannot be ignored; they are vast and also tell stories and cultivate the identities of the other characters - Ive never seen footnotes like these in any other book.Telefunken Arcolette - a three tube radio using Triodes![...][...]On SONY:Not surprised SONY demands payment for fair use considering their view of fair use is ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO SONY:10-12 years ago playing a SONY BMG CD in your PC would install a SONY rootkit providing them will full access to your PC and to search it for mp3s and whatever else; this caused havoc in the corporate world (they didnt want SONY to have all their base) and SONY blamed the tech firms they employed.WHAT YOU SAY!!! Since a portion of the rootkit consisted of stolen open source code that has to be free via its public license they do not understand copyright when someone else is holding it; all your copyright are belong to SONY :)Saint Ambrose and Agustine (214) who are they?Aurielius Abrosius - Bishop of Milan. gave away his property to the poor. leveraged his legal skills to turn the tables on the politicians who sponsored him.Blessed Augstine - Patron saint of Brewers. printers and theologians who alleviates sore eyes (great if youve read the watermark copy); taught salvation. divine grace.Vergegenwartigung - experience of making present or realisation - like Farfagnugen is driving experience.*argues that Nietzsche believes music intoxicates. causes a Dionysian state; focus on dissonance (but this is unpleasant music then)>> Adorno made similar claims about Jazz**argues Nietzsche waxes Wagnerian (223); Nietzsche and politics (247).Nietzsche and political theory. taking seriously (269) What is with the dissonance focus? Did Nietzsche like Schaunberg?Breaking Jewelery?***233 - this is increasingly getting harder to read...237... again the Adorno reference to Beethoven hearing loudspeakers - timeline?OK got it - Adornos reference is about Beethoven hearing a symphony in anything other than a concert hall; degredation.!***finally Ive found a reference I expected. Schoenberg it was (240)! Not so fond of him; Charles Ives much better; dissonance made pleasant.Eleusinian? (258) - Secret rites of the ancient Greeks (Eleusis)Schopenhauer. Arthur - another philosopher (the World and Will)!! Babette is writing German footnotes on page 275; ok. skipping these obviously. but read a few sentences anyway because German is cool sounding.The book ends with references to the dreaming god (Buddhism) and reflections on technology again; its beguiling immersion and the accompanying loss of awareness of all too real. real world events;Hallelujah!Overview: This is a very advanced book for professors and scholars; for those students that make it through and persevere the book will stimulate and increase cognitive function (but most students will not read the book. will skim and miss).-- end Hallelujah Effect Notes
