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Choreomania - Dance and Disorder (Paperback)
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Choreomania - Dance and Disorder (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
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When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious
ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and
uncouth, the disorder being described is choreomania. At once a
catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly
movements of crowds, choreomania emerged in the nineteenth century
at a time of heightened class conflict, nationalist policy, and
colonial rule. In this book, author Kelina Gotman examines these
choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of the
choreomania concept as it moved across scientific and social
scientific disciplines. Reading archives describing dramatic
misformationsof bodies and body politicsshe shows how prejudices
against expressivity unravel, in turn revealing widespread
anxieties about demonstrative agitation. This history of the fitful
body complements stories of nineteenth-century discipline and
regimentation. As she notes, constraints on movement imply
constraints on political power and agency. In each chapter, Gotman
confronts the many ways choreomania works as an extension of
discourses shaping colonialist orientalism, which alternately
depict riotous bodies as dangerously infected others, and as
curious bacchanalian remains. Through her research, Gotman also
shows how beneath the radar of this colonial discourse, men and
women gathered together to repossess on their terms the gestures of
social revolt.
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