Listening with the body: sensitivity, music and body in a local belly dance scene
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https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2022.198224Keywords:
Belly dance, ethnomusicology, dance anthropology, sensitivity, embodymentAbstract
In this article, I intend to show the intrinsic relationship between musical perception and body agency developed in the practice of belly dance, using ethnomusicology and anthropology as theoretical instruments. Then, I try to think about how the experience of listening to music in belly dancing, which involves the body as a whole, develops and produces effects among dance practitioners. These reflections are preceded by a brief reflection that situates the bodies involved in a specific scene – the city of São Paulo – demonstrating the extent to which this location particularizes the dance process in comparison to other places in the world where it is disseminated.
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