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.
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