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Anthony Shay

Pomona College, Theatre and Dance, Faculty Member

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Zurkhaneh: The House of Strength: Music and Martial Arts of Iran by Federico Spinatti

Asian Music

Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin: Out of the Natural Order, by Goodall Jane R.. 2002. London: Routledge. xi + 266 pp., illustrations, notes, index.Anthropology and the Dance: Ten Lectures, by Williams Drid. Foreword by Farnell Brenda. 2004. Second Edition. Urbana and Chicago: Univer...

Dance Research Journal

Looking at Iranian Dance

Dance Chronicle

Pop (Pāp) Music, Persian

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2000

Kafeʾi

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2000

After the Caliphate: Early Modern Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Iran, Mughal India—The Heyday of Islamic Gunpowder Empires

The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers, 2014

Chapter 5 Irish Dancing: “When Irish Feet Are Twinkling”

Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit, 2016

Chapter 3 It Takes Two to Tango

Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit, 2016

Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit

Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit, 2016

Chapter 2 “Breaking Plates on the Plaka”: Zorba Dancing

Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit, 2016

Chapter 4 Lovely Hula Hands: The Many Faces of Hula

Ethno Identity Dance for Sex, Fun and Profit, 2016

Daughter of Egypt: Farida Fahmy and the Reda Troupe

The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music from Bazm-e Qajariyyeh to Beverly Hills Garden Parties

Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Ensembles, Representation and Power

IV. Spreading the Net

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research, 2001

Review: Dancing From Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities (Madison, 2006); Dance and Society: Dancer as a Cultural Performer. Re-appraising Our Past, Moving Into the Future (Budapest, 2005)

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research, 2008

Choreographing Masculinity

When Men Dance, 2009

When men dance: choreographing masculinities across borders

... culture. Dance analyst Marina Nordera found such attitudes already couched in her five-year-o... more ... culture. Dance analyst Marina Nordera found such attitudes already couched in her five-year-old son when he laughed at male ballet dancers on television and asked why a man would wear " woman's tights"(2007, 172). For ...

Choreophobia: solo improvised dance in the Iranian world

... traditional theatre through the use of geometry and improvisation, the author demonstrates ho... more ... traditional theatre through the use of geometry and improvisation, the author demonstrates how dance is firmly linked with other Iranian art forms. Shay addresses the topic of historical evidence for this dance genre concentrating on how dance appears in visual art forms such ...

Dance and non-dance: patterned movement in Iran and Islam

Iranian Studies, 1995

... While they were almost all uniform in their admiration for the skill and agility of the pro-f... more ... While they were almost all uniform in their admiration for the skill and agility of the pro-fessional performers, they were equally unanimous in ... As Iran and Afghanistan were increasingly drawn into the net of European politi-cal and economic influence, and Central Asia and the ...

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