| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 263) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The ballerina's phallic pointe / Susan Leigh Foster -- History/theory, criticism/practice / Mark Franko -- The re-turn of the flâneuse / Lena Hammergren -- Antique longings : Genevieve Stebbins and American Delsartean performance / Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter -- Dance and the history of hysteria / Peggy Phelan -- Lifelessness in movement, or how do the dead move? Tracing displacement and disappearance for movement performance / Heidi Gilpin -- Dancing in the field : notes from memory / Sally Ann Ness -- Fete accompli : gender, "folk-dance," and Progressive-era political ideals in New York City / Linda J. Tomko -- Overreading The promised land : towards a narrative of context in dance / Randy Martin -- Fragments for a story of tango bodies (on Choreocritics and the memory of power) / Marta E. Savigliano |
| Summary |
Corporealities vivifies the study of bodies through a consideration of bodily reality, not as natural or absolute given but as tangible and substantial category of cultural experience. The essays in this volume summon up bodies engaged in practices as diverse as pageantry, physical education, festivals and exhibitions, tourism, social and theatrical dance, and post-colonial and psychoanalytic encounters. They bring these bodies to life, quivering with all the political, gendered, social, racial, sexual, and aesthetic resonances of which bodily motion is capable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-260) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Dance -- Social aspects.
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Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects
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Dancing -- social aspects
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Dance -- Anthropological aspects |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Dance -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects
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Tanz
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Theorie
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Lichamelijkheid.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Dance -- Social aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Foster, Susan Leigh
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| LC no. |
94041406 |
| ISBN |
0203645332 |
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9780203645338 |
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0415121388 |
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9780415121385 |
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9780415121392 |
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0415121396 |
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9786610108121 |
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6610108129 |
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9781134808335 |
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113480833X |
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9781134808281 |
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1134808283 |
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9781134808328 |
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1134808321 |
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1280108126 |
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9781280108129 |
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