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Dancing revolution : bodies, space, and sound in American cultural history / Christopher J. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959- author.
- Series:
- Music in American life.
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Music in American life
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--United States--History.
- Dance.
- Dance--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This text is a social history, theorizing participatory dance in New World public spaces as a tool that has enabled subaltern communities' political resistance to hegemonic control. Drawing upon musicology, ethnomusicology, iconography, anthropology, dance studies, and folklore, and spanning examples from the 18th through the 21st century, it identifies recurrent strategic patterns in the music, movement, and 'noise' that political minorities - including persons of colour, economic underclasses, women, gays, and other resistance movements - have employed to oppose, contest, and transgress dominant cultures' social control.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "Callin' out, around the world..."
- Sacred bodies in the great awakenings
- A tale of two cities I : akimbo bodies and the English Caribbean
- Spaces, whistles, tags, and drums : irruptive noise
- A tale of two cities II : festival and spectacle in the French Caribbean
- Utopian movements and oments : shakers and ghost dancers
- Blackface transformations I : modernism, primitivism, and race
- Blackface transformations II : voyeurism, identity, and double-consciousness
- Body and spirit in a post-1960s world : hippies, queens, punks, and B-boys
- Street dance and the dream of fFreedom : "It's an invitation across the nation..."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 6, 2019).
- Also issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9780252051234
- 0252051238
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