Musicology and dance : historical and critical perspectives / edited by Davinia Caddy, Maribeth Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caddy, Davinia, 1980- editor, author.

Clark, Maribeth, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance music--History and criticism.

Dance music.

Music and dance--History.

Music and dance.

Ballet--History.

Ballet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Musicology & Dance

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest, there remains no thorough-going critical examination of the ways in which musicologists might engage with dance, thinking not only about specific repertoires or genres, but about fundamental commonalities between the two, including embodiment, agency, subjectivity and consciousness. This volume begins to fill this gap. Ten chapters illustrate a range of conceptual, historical and interpretive approaches that advance the interdisciplinary study of music and dance. This methodological eclecticism is a defining feature of the volume, integrating insights from critical theory, film and cultural studies, the visual arts, phenomenology, cultural anthropology and literary criticism into the study of music and dance.

Contents:

Conceptual studies. J. S. Bach and the dance of humankind / John Butt ; Dance as 'Other' : Contrasting modes of musical representation / Suzanne Aspden ; Thinking on our feet : A somatic enquiry into a Haydn minuet ; Joseph Fort ; Making moves in reception studies : Music, listening and Loie Fuller / Davinia Caddy

Case histories. The 'splendid and shameful art' : Dancing in and around the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk / Thomas Grey ; Hymnody, dance and the sacred in the illustrated song / Marian Wilson Kimber ; Pavanes and passepieds in the age of the cancan / Carlo Caballero

Critical readings. Nijinsky, modernism, repression : The Faune ballet - once again - under analysis / David J. Code ; Choreographing Mahler songs at the centenary / Wayne Heisler Jr ; Embodied heritage : English country dance in Austen screen adaptations / Maribeth Clark.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-75571-2

1-108-75501-1

1-108-56794-0