Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social
practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural
analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned
with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of dance
practices, performances, and institutions. In Meaning in Motion,
Jane C. Desmond brings together the work of critics who have
ventured into the boundaries between dance and cultural studies,
and thus maps a little-known and rarely explored critical site.
Writing from a broad range of perspectives, contributors from
disciplines as varied as art history and anthropology, dance
history and political science, philosophy and women's studies chart
the questions and challenges that mark this site. How does dance
enact or rework social categories of identity? How do meanings
change as dance styles cross borders of race, nationality, or
class? How do we talk about materiality and motion, sensation and
expressivity, kinesthetics and ideology? The authors engage these
issues in a variety of contexts: from popular social dances to the
experimentation of the avant-garde; from nineteenth-century ballet
and contemporary Afro-Brazilian Carnival dance to hip hop, the
dance hall, and film; from the nationalist politics of folk dances
to the feminist philosophies of modern dance. Giving definition to
a new field of study, Meaning in Motion broadens the scope of dance
analysis and extends to cultural studies new ways of approaching
matters of embodiment, identity, and representation. Contributors.
Ann Cooper Albright, Evan Alderson, Norman Bryson, Cynthia Cohen
Bull, Ann Daly, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Susan Foster, Mark Franko,
Marianne Goldberg, Amy Koritz, Susan Kozel, Susan Manning, Randy
Martin, Angela McRobbie, Kate Ramsey, Anna Scott, Janet Wolff
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