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Helen Thomas
ISBN: 9780333724323
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
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Using a series of case studies, this text explores ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice, as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices.
This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.
| ISBN | 0333724321 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9780333724323
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 341 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 17 Jul 2003 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | Library of Congress | GV1588.6 \ | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 306.484 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | Pt. I | | Cultural Bodies | | | | 1 | | The Body in Culture: Before the Body Project | | 9 | | 2 | | The Body in Culture: The Body Project | | 34 | | 3 | | Ethnography Dances Back | | 64 | | Pt. II | | Dance, The Body and Cultural Theory | | | | 4 | | The Body in Dance | | 91 | | 5 | | Reconstructing the Dance: In Search of Authenticity? | | 121 | | 6 | | Dance and Difference: Performing/Representing/Rewriting the Body | | 146 | | 7 | | Dancing the Night Away: Rave/Club Culture | | 177 | | | | Conclusion | | 213 | | | | Notes | | 217 | | | | References | | 229 | | | | Name Index | | 255 | | | | Subject index | | 260 |
'Comprehensive and illuminating...Students of contemporary culture will find her interdisciplinary treatment of dance in all its forms an essential text.' - Professor Bryan Turner, Cambridge University, UK  Be the first to write a customer review
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