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Movies, Moves and Music - The Sonic World of Dance Films (Hardcover)
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Movies, Moves and Music - The Sonic World of Dance Films (Hardcover)
Series: Genre, Music & Sound
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Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its
historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the
dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising
resilience. It has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy
Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as sociological voice
(Saturday Night Fever, Footloose and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a
marker of post-modern ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern
genre has influenced cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made
dimensional, in the way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in
the filmic capacity to create narrative worlds without words.
Meanwhile, Bollywood has become a juggernaut, creating
transportable memory for diasporic Indian communities across the
world. This is an entire industry based on the 'dance number',
where films are pitched around the choreography, where the actors
are not expected to sing, but they must dance.This volume
investigates the relationship between movement and sound as it is
revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. It
considers the role of all aspects of sound in the dance film,
including the dancer generated sounds inherent in Tap, Flamenco,
Irish Dance and Krumping. Drawing on significant post-War dance
films from around world, Movies, Moves and Music comprehensively
surveys this mainstream genre, where image and sound meet in a
crucial symbiosis.
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