Perspectives on American dance : the new millennium / edited by Jennifer Atkins, Sally R. Sommer, and Tricia Henry Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkins, Jennifer, editor.

Sommer, Sally R., editor.

Young, Tricia Henry, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--United States--History.

Dance.

Ballet.

Dance--Social aspects.

United States.

History.

Dance--Social aspects--United States.

Modern dance--United States.

Modern dance.

Ballet--United States.

Physical Description:

x, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018.

Contents:

Part I. Virtual space, reframed dances

1. How one awkward, chubby, bespectacled white boy from New Jersey got all of YouTube dorky dancing, and why we should thank him for it / Latika L. Young

2. So you think you can dance straight? Same-sex ballroom and reality television / J. Ellen Gainor

3. Syndicated bodies: expressions of American identity in NFL touchdown dances / Dawn Springer

4. Displays of disruption : a decade of flash mobs / Kate Mattingly

Part II. Intimate spaces, staged subversions

5. (Post) pious and porn spectacles : frontier choreographies of the U.S. Jewess / Hannah Schwadron

6. Pole dancing for Jesus : healthy bodies, healthy souls / Michelle T. Summers

7. Dancing the brand : striptease, corporeality, and corporatization / Jessica Berson

8. Bgirls as drag kings / Ansley Joye Jones

Part III. Public spaces, political statements

9. Receptions of Descent and politics of Agora : 9/11 changed the way they saw it ; Everybody jumped into the pool / Sally R. Sommer

The land of dance crimes : social dancing and the New York City cabaret laws / Ina Sotirova

Dancing in the dark : defining and defending the elusive hipster dance aesthetic / Patsy Gay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813054995

0813054990

OCLC:

982651303