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The Day the Dancers Stayed

Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora

Theodore S Gonzalves author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.

Published:15th Oct '09

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Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. This title uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification.A rite of passage for Filipino American college students, Filipino Cultural Night challenges official accounts of the past

ISBN: 9781592137299

Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 15mm

Weight: unknown

228 pages