...Shaun T. Lopez Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 The Dangers of Dancing: The Media and Morality in 1930s Egypt SHAUN T. LOPEZ On the night of May 22, 1936, a large crowd filled the time, provided the evidentiary material for the Casino al-Busfur...

... in the court of the second Nizam of Hyderabad, Nizam `Ali Khan (r. 1762–1803), and the third Nizam, Sikandar Jah (r. 1803–29), as well as being mistress to their prime ministers of Iranian descent. She was one of the first women poets to compile a full divan of Urdu ghazals and was adept at music and dance...

...-century French attitudes toward Africa and blackness were by no means univocally negative, although they also relied on racial dichotomization. The French avant-garde, and even the general public, celebrated blackness in the fields of art, music, and dance, while anthropologists were engaged in the quest...

... distinctly modern, transnational cultural practices emerged in Istanbul's illustrated press, determining the parameters, albeit ambiguous, around modern life. One such debate centered upon jazz and its respective dances, namely the Charleston. Jazz represented a distinctively interwar, transnational sound...

... diaspora in the northwestern Indian Ocean. essays on the Habshis and Sidis by the editor. The lat- When we turn to localized studies on the African ter is noteworthy for its description of an important diaspora in the northwestern Indian Ocean, we find ritual dance to which I will return...

..., modern operas and bars in the Seti zones. Although the Vadi people-a semi- country, the Vadi girls were engaged in rustic itinerant community-are scattered in different dancing and singing performances...

..., or prostitution. berant sexuality and its display with their values. Smedley was It was a grey landscape without relief. Smedley grasped at ed- finally forced to leave Yenan by the women, who were of- ucation and escape, becoming a schoolteacher, then a jour- fended by her organizing square dances...

... in the of the Sri Lankan cinema. cinema, which combines songs, dance and music with ac- tion which can be both comic and tragic and have either The centrality of the family is a significant factor in 58...

... in humanitarian apartheid and Kurds Xhosa, the teacher ESL the of an torturing as stories Working and songs. Africa, and arresting to South homes, courage in Kurdish burning Similarly, of and songs dances. raiding as festive redesigned during were legends, played and related ancient funerals, be with stories...

... of the men jumped to their feet, beating their drums and inviting the crowd to dance to the rhythm of their music. About 2,000 women formed themselves into circles and danced jubilantly. Five thousand contract laborers, a magnificent crowd, marched to the GM's office, singing and dancing...

...,   Studies wouldn’t have the chance to show the beautiful and it’s really a common bond among all ethnic the and parts, the paintings, and the dance groups. . . . groups in Iran. They all celebrate Norooz re- South Africa Then we started researching other...

... participants women whom I formally interviewed indicated that bathe Krishna in Ganges water and turmeric, dress they consider Kartik puja to be in some way related him in finery, and sing special songs related to the to Krishna’s rasa-lila, the famous circle dance of occasion. After the janeu, Krishna...

... and Drinkers,” 22. Bira, 62 – 63. 302 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 37:2 • 2017 skills from past employment to their new home. British dance troupe the “Lancashire lasses,”33 we Frederick Bruce Thomas, a native of Mississippi see how...

... aimed at challeng- offi cials impinged on the consciousness of Ben- ing alien colonial rule. The dynamic dance of gali Hindus who from the late nineteenth cen- competing masculinities under the British im- tury engaged in a political project of recovery perial gaze happened in various colonial...

... and danced and clapped our sentatives to the National women’s wing.‘ In general, hands - since we were young everyone was interested the women attracted to NEPU were young. Hajiya Ju- when we sang for NEPU The fact that the presence mai Wool, one of the first members of the NEPU of young women...

... onslaught. However, it is essential to note Geetarasamanjun’ is a good example of this.14 In his the class basis of this revival, guided and led by sections Sufecu Kummy, a poem composed in a meter adapted to of the upper middle class. the traditional Kummy dance, Thuraiappah Pillai...

...- were mainly conducted at night in the confines of the ism was their unique religious experience. Through its slave quarters with the drumming, dancing and chant- beliefs and rituals they preserved a link with their Afri- ing which disturbed some Europeans, and mystified can origins...

... shared a large res- practices from the Indian Ocean area have hardly ervoir of religious and — one should add — secular been taken into consideration. According to Ed- texts, and they also stressed the importance of dif- ward Alpers, “music, song and dance...

... Reading More than Lolita in Tehran in J&S. Seeing herself as the Iranian minister sian dancing and Persian dancers. In my mind, Reading (secretary) of defense, Keshavarz advocates the Nafisi’s analysis of Persian performing arts orig- need for Iranian intellectuals to lie to the West...

...- nia Press, 2005), chap. 2. 3.  Najmabadi, Women with Moustaches, chap. 2. and Golnar’s singing and dancing — brought her main ingredients were love stories and women the reproach of family and friends and abuse dancing...