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Social choreography : ideology as performance in dance and everyday movement / Andrew Hewitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewitt, Andrew, 1961-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Choreography.
- Dance--Sociological aspects.
- Dance.
- Movement, Aesthetics of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order.
- Contents:
- Social choreography and the aesthetic continuum
- The body of Marsyas: aesthetic socialism and the physiology of the sublime
- Stumbling and legibility: gesture and the dialectic of tact
- "America makes me sick!" nationalism, race, gender and hysteria
- The scandalous male icon: Nijinsky and the queering of symbolist aesthetics
- From woman to girl: mass culture and gender panic.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613021847
- 9781283021845
- 1283021846
- 9780822386582
- 0822386585
- OCLC:
- 226068277
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