Dance, Modernity and Culture
Author | : Helen Thomas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134881835 |
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Author | : Helen Thomas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134881835 |
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Helen Thomas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134881827 |
By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applies her approach to, among others, St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham.
Author | : Edward Ross Dickinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2017-07-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107196221 |
The book explores the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European culture in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis and reveals the connections between dance, politics, culture, religion, the arts, psychology, entertainment, and selfhood.
Author | : A. Carter |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2011-12-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230354483 |
A renewed interest in nature, the ancient Greeks, and the freedom of the body was to transform dance and physical culture in the early twentieth century. The book discusses the creative individuals and developments in science and other art forms that shaped the evolution of modern dance in its international context.
Author | : Matthew Krystal |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2011-12-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1607320975 |
Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices. Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow, folkloric dance, and dancing sports mascots--the book addresses both the ideational and behavioral dimensions of identity. Each dance is examined as a unique cultural expression in individual chapters, and then all are compared in the conclusion, where striking parallels and important divergences are revealed. Ultimately, Krystal describes how dancers and audiences work to construct and consume satisfying and meaningful identities through dance by either challenging social inequality or reinforcing the present social order. Detailed ethnographic work, thorough case studies, and an insightful narrative voice make Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian a substantial addition to scholarly literature on dance in the Americas. It will be of interest to scholars of Native American studies, social sciences, and performing arts.
Author | : Ida Meftahi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317620615 |
Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century. Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, its space of performance, and spectatorial cultural ideology, this book traces the dancing body in multiple milieus of performance, including the Pahlavi era’s national artistic scene and the popular café and cabaret stages, as well as the commercial cinematic screen and the post-revolutionary Islamized theatrical stage. It links the socio-political discourses on performance with the staged public dancer, in order to interrogate the formation of dominant categories of "modern," "high," and "artistic," and the subsequent "othering" of cultural realms that were discursively peripheralized from the "national" stage. Through the study of archival and ethnographic research as well as a diverse literature pertaining to music, theater, cinema, and popular culture, it combines a close reading of primary sources such as official documents, press materials, and program notes with visual analysis of filmic materials and imageries, as well as interviews with practitioners. It offers an original and informed exploration into the ways performing bodies and their public have been associated with binary notions of vice and virtue, morality and immorality, commitment and degeneration, chastity and eroticism, and veiled-ness and nakedness. Engaging with a range of methodological and historiographical methods, including postcolonial, performance, and feminist studies, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East history and Iranian studies, as well as gender studies and dance and performance studies.
Author | : Joel Dinerstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An innovative study of the influence of black popular culture on modern American life; In any age and any given society, cultural practices reflect the material circumstances of people's everyday lives. According to Joel Dinerstein, it was no different in America between the two World Wars - an era sometimes known as the machine age - when innovative forms of music and dance helped a newly urbanized population cope with the increased mechanization of modern life. Grand spectacles such as the Ziegfield Follies and the movies of Busby Berkeley captured the American ethos of mass production, with chorus girls as the cogs of these fast, flowing pleasure vehicles. Yet it was African American culture, Dinerstein argues, that ultimately provided the means of aesthetic adaptation to the accelerated tempo of modernity. Drawing on a legacy of engagement with and resistance to technological change, with deep roots in West African dance and music, black artists developed new cultural forms that sought to humanize machines. In The Ballad of John Henry, the epic toast Shine, and countless blues songs, African Americans first addressed the challenge of industrialization. Jazz musicians drew
Author | : Andrew Field |
Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9629963736 |
"It was thanks to its cabarets that Old Shanghai was called the `Paris of the Orient.' No one has studied the rise and fall of those cabarets more extensively than Andrew Field. His book is packed with fascinating information and attests on every page to his understanding of Shanghai's history." LYNN PAN, author of Sons of the Yellow Emperor --
Author | : Ramsay Burt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Choreography |
ISBN | : 9781138313033 |
This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity, by examining the way in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.
Author | : Helen Thomas |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-09-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780333724316 |
This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.