51 research outputs found
Gendered Bodies, Personnel Policies and the Culture of the British Army: ESRC Full Research Report, R000223562.
Grand Gestures: A Somatic Ethnography
This is a 'Plain English' report on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project 'A Somatic Ethnography of Grand Gestures Elders Dance Group'. It is written for the communities of practice around elders dance and participatory arts more generally
Welcoming the Unknown Territory
Dance Artist Paula Turner and ethnographer Dr Trish Winter have been collaborating on an ethnographic research project with Grand Gestures Elders Dance Group in the north east of England. They write about what the collaboration has brought to Paula's practice
A Somatic Ethnography of Grand Gestures Elders Dance Group
Report for the AHRC Cultural Value Project
'Dance from the exotic shores of England': constructions of Englishness in new English folk dance
Englishness as a Beleaguered Identity and Contemporary English Folk
In England in the opening decade of the 21st century there has been a resurgence of interest in
English folk and traditional music and dance. A number of different constructions of Englishness
circulate around these contemporary English folk arts, and one of these is the notion of Englishness
as a beleaguered identity. The paper identifies this idea of Englishness as beleaguered, and traces
some of its manifestations within and around the cultures of English folk, before going on to reflect
on its significance in a wider cultural and political context and with specific reference to
tourism. The research on which it draws was primarily conducted within an ethnographic research
project, 'Performing Englishness in New English Folk Music and Dance', supported by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council and conduced in 2007-2009 at the Centre for Research in Media and
Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland
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