Dance and Authoritarianism

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Anthony Shay

312 psl.

2021 m.

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Barcode: 9781789383522

How dance and mass movement are used as a political tool by political regimes, especially authoritarian governments, as a way of showing symbolic mass support for the regime. Such regimes require spectacle to present them as protectors of the ethnic and national identities of their subjects, represented by the costumed folk dancers. 18 b/w illus.