Perspectives on American Dance: The New Millennium (Hardcover)

The two volumes of Perspectives on American Dance are the first anthologies in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. They show how social experience, courtship, sexualities, and other aspects of life in America are translated through dancing into spatial patterns, gestures, and partner relationships. Essays in these collections address rarely-studied topics in American dance and offer unexpected perspectives on commonly studied dance forms. The second volume, The New Millennium, features essays by a young generation of writers who look at the kinds of social dancing that speak to new audiences through new media. Topics include ""dorky dancing"" on YouTube; same-sex competitors on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance; the racial politics of NFL touchdown dances; the commercialization of flash mobs; the connections between striptease and corporate branding; how 9/11 affected dance; the criminalization of New York City club dancing; and the joyous ironies of hipster dance. This volume emphasizes how dancing is becoming more social and interactive as technology opens up new ways to create and distribute dance.

General

Imprint:	University Press of Florida
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2018
Editors:	Jennifer Atkins • Sally R. Sommer • Tricia Henry Young
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8130-5499-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Dance > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8130-5499-0
Barcode:	9780813054995

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