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Men and the Happiness Dance
This chapter examines male participation in belly dance and related social dance forms through the idea of the "happiness dance." Sellers-Young challenges the assumption that the dance belongs naturally or exclusively to women. By attending to figures such as Ibrahim Farrah, Mahmoud Reda, Tito Seif, and John Compton, she shows that masculinity in the form is historically and contextually produced. The chapter is valuable beca...
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity