Kinetic cultures : modernism and embodiment on the belle epoque stage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vajjhala, Rachana.

Series:

California Studies in 20th-Century Music Series

California Studies in 20th-Century Music Series ; v.32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballet--France--Paris--20th century.

Ballet.

Ballets--France--Paris--20th century--History and criticism.

Ballets.

Gesture in dance.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--France--20th century.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Music and dance--France--Paris--20th century.

Music and dance.

Paris (France)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

Belle époque Paris adored dance. Whether at the music hall or in more refined theaters, audiences flocked to see the spectacles offered to them by the likes of Isadora Duncan, Diaghilev's flashy company, and an embarrassment of Salomés. After languishing in the shadow of opera for much of the nineteenth century, ballet found itself part of this lively kinetic constellation. In Kinetic Cultures, Rachana Vajjhala argues that far from being mere delectation, ballet was implicated in the larger republican project of national rehabilitation through a rehabilitation of its citizens. By tracing the various gestural complexes of the period--bodybuilding routines, appropriate physical comportment for women, choreographic vocabularies, and more--Vajjhala presents a new way of understanding histories of dance and music, one that she locates in gesture and movement.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Circulations

1. Ghosts in the House, Angels in the Machine

2. Telling Time

II. Identities

3. Beauty's Body

4. Mixed Doubles

5. Les Bébés in Toyland

III. Registers

6. Machines to Move Them

7. No Exit

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520976047

OCLC:

1402812987