Book Listings and Dates (Discussion starts Thursday!)
TalkRaqsBooks: For Belly Dancers
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The only dates I'll set is when I start a Book Discussion thread. This means you can read when _you_ want to, not just when the group says so. I'm also trying to be very flexible for a number of folks; some of you'll want to save up to get some of these books, and others'll want to do Inter library Loan for them.
And we're all very busy people.
So, Discussion Start dates and works below:
Thu Mar 12: "An hour for God and an hour for the heart": Islam, gender and female entertainment in Egypt by Karin van Nieuwkerk
Thu Mar 26: "Sirat Al-Ghawazi" Series by Edwina Nearing
Tue Apr 14: Looking for Little Egypt by Donna Carlton
Tue May 5: Bellydance: A Guide to Middle Eastern Dance, Its Music, Its Culture and Costume by Keti Sharif
Tue May 19: Style File: A Visual Vocabulary of Middle Eastern Dance Costume by Dawn Devine Brown
Mon Jun 8: The Music of the Arabs by Habib Hassan Touma
Mon Jun 29: Tribal Vision: A Celebration of Life Through Tribal Belly Dance by Paulette Rees-Denis
Mon Jul 20: Anatomy of Movement by Blandine Calais-Germain
Mon Aug 24 : Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, And Harem Fantasy by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young
I did replace The Belly Dance Book. Aside from the point that we already have a lot of works, and I did want a "Tribal-specific" work -- Tazz's book is the only work I list that's out of print. Especially for this first go-around, availability is pretty high on my considerations.
So, to start, just read the first work in this list, and think about it, it's implications for your dance style, for what you think about the dance, for how you interact with people in this form, and the list. It, and the next one, are online, so you have time to get the first book, Looking for Little Egypt. On Thur., I'll start a thread about it, and we can start talking.
Sound good?
Notes on getting books:
See the links up top under "Touchstone works"? Click on a lick, then click on "work info". It'll take you to LibraryThing's page on the book, with LOTS of information on it.
On that page, to the upper left, under "Buy, borrow, swap or view", are links to new and used bookstores that might carry it, so all your purchase options are in one place. This is part of why you should put Book Titles in the brackets. :)
There's also a Google Books option, if it's in their system; that oftentimes allows you to see part of the book online as a preview of the work.
If anyone is considering Inter-Library Loan, but has no experience with it, comment -- I'm willing to write up a brief bit on it.
And we're all very busy people.
So, Discussion Start dates and works below:
Thu Mar 12: "An hour for God and an hour for the heart": Islam, gender and female entertainment in Egypt by Karin van Nieuwkerk
Thu Mar 26: "Sirat Al-Ghawazi" Series by Edwina Nearing
Tue Apr 14: Looking for Little Egypt by Donna Carlton
Tue May 5: Bellydance: A Guide to Middle Eastern Dance, Its Music, Its Culture and Costume by Keti Sharif
Tue May 19: Style File: A Visual Vocabulary of Middle Eastern Dance Costume by Dawn Devine Brown
Mon Jun 8: The Music of the Arabs by Habib Hassan Touma
Mon Jun 29: Tribal Vision: A Celebration of Life Through Tribal Belly Dance by Paulette Rees-Denis
Mon Jul 20: Anatomy of Movement by Blandine Calais-Germain
Mon Aug 24 : Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, And Harem Fantasy by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young
I did replace The Belly Dance Book. Aside from the point that we already have a lot of works, and I did want a "Tribal-specific" work -- Tazz's book is the only work I list that's out of print. Especially for this first go-around, availability is pretty high on my considerations.
So, to start, just read the first work in this list, and think about it, it's implications for your dance style, for what you think about the dance, for how you interact with people in this form, and the list. It, and the next one, are online, so you have time to get the first book, Looking for Little Egypt. On Thur., I'll start a thread about it, and we can start talking.
Sound good?
Notes on getting books:
See the links up top under "Touchstone works"? Click on a lick, then click on "work info". It'll take you to LibraryThing's page on the book, with LOTS of information on it.
On that page, to the upper left, under "Buy, borrow, swap or view", are links to new and used bookstores that might carry it, so all your purchase options are in one place. This is part of why you should put Book Titles in the brackets. :)
There's also a Google Books option, if it's in their system; that oftentimes allows you to see part of the book online as a preview of the work.
If anyone is considering Inter-Library Loan, but has no experience with it, comment -- I'm willing to write up a brief bit on it.
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