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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and the United States, and between film analysis and the dance studio, the author examines the cultural politics of the romanticized and historical Indian dancer—the mythical courtesan. The author argues that the mythical courtesan was called into existence through film cultures in the early twentieth century...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 295–307.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Camee Maddox-Wingfield Abstract In contemporary Martinique, an overseas territory of France located in the Lesser Antilles, the term bèlè is used to describe a subculture or a way of life that is organized around a rich complex of ancestral Afro-Creole drum-dance practices. In this article...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 27–28.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Hermine Pinson HERMINE PINSON FourSisters and the Dance I It's morning, it's evening or afternoon. Sweat glistens the tips of our noses. I two-step to some old-school. Barefoot in her nightgown, one sister waltzes alone to music that moves her. One kneels. One listens. Umm Kulthum sings...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 39.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Mendi Lewis Obadike Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 MEN DI LEWIS OBADIKE WatchingA FriendDancein BillT.JonesY' ouWalk It's a dance about the legacy of Rome. My mind is on Cape Coast. It isn't because one of the dancers flew with us to Ghana. It's not that our group split when we went...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and its dance forms to empower women cross-culturally. She subverts traditional representations of womanhood in her songs and performances, thereby expanding existing definitions of womanhood. Hinds addresses women's ambivalent relationships with the performance and celebration of Caribbean culture...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 161–182.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Figure 2. Bilquis sees Frederico dancing on the rooftop. ...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., these and other women challenged and affirmed gendered stereotypes of blackness. While Baker, Miranda, and Dunham sang and danced, Cosme's use of poetry set her apart from her female contemporaries. As this paper highlights, Cosme rejected simplistic depictions of blackness/African-based cultural traditions...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
...” begins with a long view of a neon planet. It is positioned against a galaxy and the sun and, as we learn with a quick zoom in, it is populated by Afro-diasporic merengueros (merengue dancers). Set against the eerie lime green landscape and menacing red boulders, these merengueros begin to dance...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 36–40.
Published: 01 March 2002
... stole dance classes. I met her in class, at Pamela Pointer's studio, Our Lady of Lourdes, lower level. We arrived early to change from our street clothes, to prepare. We stepped into the immediate coolness that basements and churches have. We tied our hair back. We soaked our mouths with ripped...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 112–113.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Bettina Judd BETTINA JUDD HeyJoe afterj.h. & them i heardyoushotyourladydown and there was no clap of the bullet. no explosion just her deflating body a sweet whistle gone i heardyoushotyourladydown and there was dancing people mistook you for saying getdown!as in dance ratherthan don't get shot i...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 11–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
... know for my family it’s been several generations of distance, but I also know that there are a few stories that seemed to have crept down the lineage. For instance, family lore says that my great-great-grandmother recounted an experience of being taken somewhere where a man dressed in all red danced...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 56–57.
Published: 01 September 2005
... nothing holy you can't hear nobody pray brother your sister hung here hangs sister youknowoldblues night till morning don't you refuse her don't commit an old sin when that is your sister hanging there she is twisting dying for ham's supposed sin think of songs on your dancing tongue twisting have you...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
...), to accommodate my mother, I stopped talking to my grandmother. As someone who has communicated in various languages—Spanish, computer code, West African dance, mathematics, French, American Sign Language—I knew that I could communicate with my grandmother in other ways, ways that would not impact my mother’s...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of contemporary dance in New Yorkwith Merce Cunningham. I came to New Yorkand got a scholarship at the school ofMerce Cunningham, and that was my idea, just to learn some new techniques and then go back to Mexico and keep dancing. VPR: Was that your goal, to be a professional dancer? AA: Yes,I became...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... entrapment, whereas the possessive control of a witch or fairy is responsible for Rapunzel’s imprisonment. Rapunzel’s dreams entail a longing for the unknown, while Rafaela’s consist of nostalgia. Rafaela wishes she could dance and craves “coconut and papaya juice,” while yearning for even “sweeter drinks...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 78–102.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and a growing internet audience, her 2005 song "Roll It Gal" brought her more firmly into the international arena. Hinds is known for her performances, her body, and her movement. She has perfected what is known as the Caribbean wine, a dance in which one circles or "rolls" the hips and backside to the rhythm...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 149–157.
Published: 01 September 2011
... dances. Even if you have problems, you dance. We didn't even have the women's organization at first. We started the folklore group dancing like this in the traditional way. [Women's group] L'Etoile Brillant (Shining Star) came about when several women who were dancing started talking about what they used...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
... (or Hindi-language popular cinema). In the subsequent scene, Miranda seeks out an Indian grocery store, where she watches a Bollywood song-and-dance sequence in which women "in harem pants [thrust] their hips in synchrony." She gazes at the women on covers ofBollywood videos with "skirts that sat VANITA...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 84–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., and so did my body. I knew it was not my own, but I wasn’t ready to give up on it yet. I shielded it, yet. Eyes, hands, breaths scorched it. Yet, I touched it. It needed reassurance. I was not ready to let it be crushed, yet. ○ ○ ○ In the morning, though, I went out dancing with my friends...
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