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From ballroom to dancesport : aesthetics, athletics, and body culture / Caroline Joan S. Picart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-
- Series:
- SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
- SUNY series in communication studies.
- SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
- SUNY series in communication studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballroom dancing--Social aspects.
- Ballroom dancing.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasing international anxiety over how and whether to transform ballroom into an Olympic sport. Writing as a participant-critic, Picart suggests that both are crucial sites where bodies are packaged as racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and classed objects. In addition, Picart argues, as the choreography, costuming, and genre of ballroom and DanceSport continue to evolve, these theatrical productions are aestheticized and constructed to encourage commercial appeal, using the narrative frame of the competitive melodrama to heighten audience interest.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- The Contested Landscape of Ballroom Dance
- Dancing through Different Worlds
- Ballroom Dance and the Movies
- Paving the Road to the Olympics
- Packaging Fantasy and Morality
- Quo Vadis?
- Ballroom-Dance-Related Organizations
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791482414
- 0791482413
- 9781423755777
- 1423755774
- OCLC:
- 64560494
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