Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul
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Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul

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Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul

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Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdo?an.

In this book, Melin Levent Yuna questions why a dance that appears to publicly represent an erotic relationship finds space to expand and increase dramatically in the number of contemporary Turkish Muslim tango dancers, particularly during a conservative rule. Even during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, tango dance classes, gatherings, and messages flourished on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Zoom. Urban Turkey and its tango dance performances provide one symbol and example of how neoliberal capitalism could go hand in hand with conservatism by becoming a bridge between Europe and the Middle East. This study largely focuses on the dancers' perspective while presenting the policies of Erdo?an. It presents the social characteristics of the tango dancers, the meanings they attach to their bodies and their dance as well as what this dance reflects about them – besides the policies of the Justice and Development Party. The book approaches the tango dance and its dancing body in terms of layers of meaning systems in a neoliberal and conservative context.

This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in dance, anthropology, cultural studies, and performance studies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9781000469981
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. I Concepts and tools: Contemporary self, identity, class, and more
  10. II Leisure, consumption, class: One mode of being an upper-middle class
  11. III Becoming the contemporary tango and the tango dancer: Bailemos el Tango
  12. IV One mode of being an upper-middle class in Istanbul: Bodies, self, and the attached meanings, Part I
  13. V Bodies, self, and the attached meanings, Part II
  14. VI Bodies, self, and the attached meanings, Part III
  15. Conclusion
  16. Index