The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory - Helen Thomas

The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

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Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2003
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-72431-6 (ISBN)
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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 text 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.

HELEN THOMAS is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has published numerous articles on dance and presented papers on her work in Europe, North America and Japan. She is editor of Dance, Gender and Culture and Dance in the City, and is author of Dance, Modernity and Culture. She recently completed an AHRB funded study, Dancing into the Third Age: Social Dance as Cultural Text.

Part 1 Cultural bodies: the body in culture - before the body project; the body in culture - the body project; ethnography dances back. Part II Dance, the body and cultural theory: the body in dance; reconstructing the dance - in search of authenticity?; dance and difference - performing/representing/re-writing the body; dancing the night away - rave/club culture.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.9.2003
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-333-72431-3 / 0333724313
ISBN-13 978-0-333-72431-6 / 9780333724316
Zustand Neuware
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