Research Catalog

Title

Meaning in motion : new cultural studies of dance / Jane C. Desmond, editor.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Desmond, Jane.

Description

vi, 398 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for culturalal analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of dance practices, performances, and institutions. In Meaning in Motion, Jane C. Desmond brings together the work of critics who have ventured into the boundaries between dance and cultural studies, and thus maps a little-known and rarely explored critical site." "Writing from a broad range of perspectives, contributors from disciplines as varied as art history and anthropology, dance history and political science, philosophy and women's studies chart the questions and challenges that mark this site. How does dance enact or rework social categories of identity? How do meanings change as dance styles cross borders of race, nationality, or class?. How do we talk about materiality and motion, sensation and expressivity, kinesthetics and ideology? The authors engage these issues in a variety of contexts: from popular social dances to experimentation of the avant-garde; from nineteenth-century ballet and contemporary Afro-Brazilian Carnival dance to hip hop, the dance hall, and film; from the nationalist politics of folk dances to the feminist philosophies of modern dance. Giving definition to a new field of study, Meaning in Motion broadens the scope of dance analysis and extends to cultural studies new ways of approaching matters of embodiment, identity, and representation."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Post-contemporary interventions

Uniform Title

Post-contemporary interventions.

Subject

• Dance > Anthropological aspects
• Dance > Sociological aspects
• Human beings > Attitude and movement
• Human locomotion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Embodying difference : issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond -- Cultural studies and dance history / Norman Bryson -- Reinstating corporeality : feminism and body politics / Janet Wolff -- "The story is told as a history of the body" : strategies of mimesis in the work of Irigaray and Bausch / Susan Kozel -- Classical ballet : a discourse of difference / Ann Daly -- Ballet as ideology : Giselle, act 2 / Evan Alderson -- Dancing the orient for England : Maud Allan's The vision of salome / Amy Koritz -- The female dancer and the male gaze : feminist critiques of early modern dance / Susan Manning -- Some thoughts on choreographing history / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Auto-body stories : Blondell Cummings and autobiography in dance / Ann Cooper Albright -- Dance narratives and fantasies of achievement / Angela McRobbie.
• Dancing bodies / Susan Leigh Foster -- Spectacle and dancing bodies that matter : or, if it don't fit, don't force it / Anna Beatrice Scott -- Sense, meaning, and perception in three dance cultures / Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull -- Some notes on Yvonne Rainer, modernism, politics, emotion, performance, and the aftermath / Mark Franko -- Homogenized ballerinas / Marianne Goldberg -- Dance ethnography and the limits of representation / Randy Martin -- Vodou, nationalism, and performance : the staging of folklore in mid-twentieth-century Haiti / Kate Ramsey.

ISBN

• 0822319365 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 082231942X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96043776^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library