Sorry I Don't Dance : Why Men Refuse to Move

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Maxine Leeds.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Dance--Sociological aspects.

Gender identity in dance.

Male dancers--Social conditions.

Masculinity.

Men--Social life and customs.

Local Subjects:

Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Dance--Sociological aspects.

Gender identity in dance.

Male dancers--Social conditions.

Masculinity.

Men--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Other Title:

Sorry I Dont Dance

Sorry I Don't Dance

Place of Publication:

Cary : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.

Summary:

If you want to learn about masculinity, ask a man if he likes to dance. One man in this study answered, "Music is something that goes on inside my head, and is sort of divorced from, to a large extent, the rest of my body." How did this man's head become divorced from his body? To answer this question, Maxine Craig sought out men who love music but hate to dance. Combining interviews, participant observation and archival research, Sorry I Don't Dance uncovers the recent origins of cultural assumptions regarding sex, race, and the capacity to dance. From the beginning of the twentieth century through the Swing Era young men of all races danced. But in the 1960s suburbanization, homophobia, and fragmentation of music cultures drove white men from the dance floor, and feminized, sexualized and racialized dance. Sorry I Don't Dance reveals how changing beliefs concerning gender, race, class, and sexuality over the past half-century have redefined what it means to be a man in America.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. The Search for Dancing Men""; ""2. Who Killed the New Man?""; ""3. Dancing in Uniform""; ""4. Sad Sack�s Sons: Dancing in the Postwar Years""; ""5. Sex or “Just Dancing�""; ""6. Home Schooling""; ""7. Stepping On and Across Boundaries""; ""8. How to Solve the Mind/Body Problem""; ""Methodological Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-933520-6

0-19-984528-X

OCLC:

858861408