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Choreomania : dance and disorder
- Title
- Choreomania : dance and disorder / Kélina Gotman.
- Author
- Gotman, Kélina
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 361 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- Keĺina Gotman examines choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of choreomania, a fantastical concept across scientific disciplines used to designate the spontaneous and uncontrolled movements of crowds.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in dance theory
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in dance theory
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Excavating dance in the archive -- Obscuritas antiquitatis: institutions, affiliations, marginalia -- Madness after Foucault: medieval bacchanals -- Translatio: St. Vitus's Dance, demonism, and the early modern -- The Convulsionaries: antics on the French Revolutionary stage -- Mobiles, mobs, and monads: nineteenth-century crowd forms -- Médecine rétrospective: hysteria's archival drag -- Part II: Colonial and postcolonial stages: scenes of ferment in the field -- 'Sicily Implies Asia and Africa': tarantellas and comparative method -- Ecstasy-belonging in Madagascar and Brazil -- Ghost dancing: excess, waste, and the American West -- 'The Gift of Seeing Resemblances': cargo cults in the antipodes -- Monstrous grace: blackness and the new dance 'Crazes' -- Coda: moving fields, modernity, and the Bacchic chorus.
- ISBN
- 9780190840426
- 0190840420
- 9780190840419
- 0190840412
- 9780190840457 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017015372
- 40027831064
- OCLC
- ocn987983397
- 987983397
- SCSB-8935459
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library