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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.
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Helen Thomas is a Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths College.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Hardcover, ix + 262 pages, NOT ex-library. No dust jacket. Pages are clean, bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding. ISBN sticker on the rear board. -- 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. --- Contents: Introduction; Pt. I. Cultural Bodies: -- 1. The Body in Culture: Before the Body Project [Before the body project; The body as symbol; Non-verbal communication] 2. The Body in Culture: The Body Project [Bodies of difference; Bodies of discourse; Technologies of power; 'Get undressed - but be slim, good-looking and tanned!'; Transcending the body/mind dualism?] 3. Ethnography Dances Back [Varieties of ethnography; Postmodernism and feminism: 'the awkward relation'; The researcher as object; Dance ethnography as a situated reflexive bodily practice]; Pt. II. Dance, the Body and Cultural Theory: -- 4. The Body in Dance ['The sensible and the intelligible'; The celebration of the visual in ballet; The sense of touch in contact improvisation; Bodily sensing in ballet and contact improvisation; Technical shifts and aesthetic transformations; Water Study: then and now] 5. Reconstructing the Dance: In Search of Authenticity? [The real thing?; Reconstruction in context; Varieties of musical authenticity; Dance as it was; Dance as it is / dance as it was; Dance as it is; 'Performance museums' and lived traditions] 6. Dance and Difference: Performing / Representing / Rewriting the Body [Exoticism, eroticism and auto-eroticism; Representations of women in western theatrical dance; Dance and body politics; Dancing bodies / subjects-in-process; Dance as a metaphor for 'writing the body'] 7. Dancing the Night Away: Rave / Club Culture [The 1950s dance hall experience and the 1990s club experience compared; From acid house to rave culture; Dance culture, youth culture and subculture; From subcultures to club cultures]; Conclusion; Notes; References; Name Index; Subject Index. Seller Inventory # 007216
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