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By: Sanjoy Roy · Published: Palgrave Macmillan · Ref: Dance in the City ed. H. Thomas (London: Macmillan, 1997) pp 68-86 · ISBN: 978-0312174545 · Category: Books · See Palgrave Macmillan website

Dirt, noise, traffic: contemporary Indian dance in the western city

An academic chapter exploring mapping, hybridity, race and diaspora
Dance in the City book cover

Dance in the City book cover

Chapter in Dance in the City, a collection of academic writings relating dance practices to the metropolis. Combines ideas of anthropologist Mary Douglas (‘dirt’) with concepts from information/cybernetics theory (‘noise’, ‘traffic’).

The book (and selected chapters) are available from this link.

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