Meaning in motion : new cultural studies of dance / Jane C. Desmond, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desmond, Jane, editor.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Sociological aspects.

Dance.

Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Human beings--Attitude and movement.

Human beings.

Human locomotion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 398 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for culturalal analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of dance practices, performances, and institutions. In Meaning in Motion, Jane C. Desmond brings together the work of critics who have ventured into the boundaries between dance and cultural studies, and thus maps a little-known and rarely explored critical site." "Writing from a broad range of perspectives, contributors from disciplines as varied as art history and anthropology, dance history and political science, philosophy and women's studies chart the questions and challenges that mark this site. How does dance enact or rework social categories of identity? How do meanings change as dance styles cross borders of race, nationality, or class?. How do we talk about materiality and motion, sensation and expressivity, kinesthetics and ideology? The authors engage these issues in a variety of contexts: from popular social dances to experimentation of the avant-garde; from nineteenth-century ballet and contemporary Afro-Brazilian Carnival dance to hip hop, the dance hall, and film; from the nationalist politics of folk dances to the feminist philosophies of modern dance. Giving definition to a new field of study, Meaning in Motion broadens the scope of dance analysis and extends to cultural studies new ways of approaching matters of embodiment, identity, and representation."--Book jacket.

Contents:

Embodying difference : issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond

Cultural studies and dance history / Norman Bryson

Reinstating corporeality : feminism and body politics / Janet Wolff

"The story is told as a history of the body" : strategies of mimesis in the work of Irigaray and Bausch / Susan Kozel

Classical ballet : a discourse of difference / Ann Daly

Ballet as ideology : Giselle, Act 2 / Evan Alderson

Dancing the Orient for England : Maud Allan's The vision of Salome / Amy Koritz

The female dancer and the male gaze : feminist critiques of early modern dance / Susan Manning

Some thoughts on choreographing history / Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Auto-body stories : Blondell Cummings and autobiography in dance / Ann Cooper Albright

Dance naratives and fantasies of achievement / Angela McRobbie

Dancing bodies / Susan Leigh Foster

Spectacle and dancing bodies that matter : or, If it don't fit, don't force it / Anna Beatrice Scott

Sense, meaning, and perception in three dance cultures / Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull

Some notes on Yvonne Rainer, modernism, politics, emotion, performance, and the aftermath / Mark Franko

Homogenized ballerinas / Marianne Goldberg

Dance ethnography and the limits of representation / Randy Martin

Vodou, nationalism, and performance : the staging of folklore in mid-twentieth-century Haiti / Kate Ramsey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822397281

0822397285

OCLC:

1144149697