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Dance, consumerism, and spirituality / CS Walter.

Title
Dance, consumerism, and spirituality / CS Walter.
Author
Walter, C. S.
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description
xiv, 189 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Dance, Consumerism, and Spirituality exposes and explores the relationships between the consumption of dance related goods, services, and ideas to human spirituality. This non fiction book is important because we find ourselves in a dance moment in time, where dance is proliferating in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while and the inherent spiritual power associated with dance is instead being linked with mass consumption. Simply stated, historically dance deeply connects with consumers in ways that extend beyond notions of entertainment"--
Subject
  • Dance > Social aspects
  • Dance > Religious aspects
  • Consumption (Economics)
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior
  • PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General
  • RELIGION / Spirituality
  • PERFORMING ARTS > General
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreward; Jonathan SchroederIntroduction: An Opening1. On the Spiritual Motivations for Dance Consumption 2. Womanist Trans-modern Dance Metaphors of Consumer 3. Value Creation and the Inner Mystic Dancer 4. On Valuing Mystical Dance Experiences5. The Power of Dance in Cyberity6. Womanist Ideology In Service of A Mystical Worldview Conclusion: A Continuing Passage.
ISBN
  • 9781137463524
  • 113746352X
LCCN
^^2014018469
OCLC
881656150
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library