Berghahn Series
Dance and Performance Studies
General Editors:
Jonathan Skinner, University of Surrey
Helena Wulff, Stockholm University
Advisory Board:
Alexandra Carter, Middlesex University
Marion Kant, University of Pennysylvania
Tim Scholl, Oberlin College
In all cultures, and across time, people have danced. For performers and spectators, the expressive nature of dance opens up spaces where social and political circumstances are creatively negotiated. Grounded in ethnography, this series explores dance, music and bodily movement in cultural contexts at the juncture of history, ritual and performance in an interconnected world.
Submissions
Formal submissions should be sent directly to Berghahn Books. For more information on Berghahn's manuscript submission procedure, please look at the Info for Authors section on this web site. All submissions to this series, as well as any queries about the formal procedure, should be sent to Berghahn
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Volume 17
Children Dancing in Bali
Practice, Performance, and Power
Jonathan McIntosh
Published: 2025 -
Volume 16
Towards a British Natyam
Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition
Magdalen Gorringe
Published: 2025 -
Volume 15
Perspectives in Motion
Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music
Edited by Kendra Stepputat and Brian Diettrich
Published: 2021
Foreword by Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho -
Volume 14
24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Andrew B. Armstrong
Published: 2019 -
Volume 13
Lullabies and Battle Cries
Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland
Jaime Rollins
Published: 2018 -
Volume 12
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Tríona Ní Shíocháin
Published: 2017 -
Volume 11
Staging Citizenship
Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania
Ioana Szeman
Published: 2017 -
Volume 10
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance
Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Edited by Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas
Published: 2017 -
Volume 9
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances
The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance
Nandini Sikand
Published: 2016 -
Volume 8
Choreographies of Landscape
Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Sally Ann Ness
Published: 2016 -
Volume 7
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Lauren Miller Griffith
Published: 2016 -
Volume 6
Learning Senegalese Sabar
Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar
Eleni Bizas
Published: 2014 -
Volume 5
Dance Circles
Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
Published: 2013 -
Volume 4
Dancing Cultures
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner
Published: 2012 -
Volume 3
Turning the Tune
Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village
Adam Kaul
Published: 2009 -
Volume 2
Embodied Communities
Dance Traditions and Change in Java
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Published: 2008 -
Volume 1
Dancing At the Crossroads
Memory and Mobility in Ireland
Helena Wulff
Published: 2007