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Funny moves : dance humor politics / edited by Marta E. Savigliano and Hannah Schwadron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marta E. Savigliano
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--History--20th century.
- Dance.
- Dance--History--21st century.
- Wit and humor in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 'Funny Moves' explores the intersection of dance and humour and the political stakes of that intersection. Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, ten authors discuss instances of dance humour from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The book articulates dance scholarship with theories of laughter, feminist theory, gender/sexuality studies, de/postcolonial studies, film studies, and critical race studies. Insisting that humour adds more than accessory or faulty moves to dance, it invites readers to consider funny moves as dance's Other - the exclusions that define dance and ensure that dance always skirts the ridiculous.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 8, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9780197765784
- 0197765785
- 9780197765807
- 0197765807
- OCLC:
- 1483251728
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