Valuing Dance Commodities and Gifts in Motion

Name: Valuing Dance Commodities and Gifts in Motion
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ISBN: 9780190933982

ISBN-10: 0190933984

ISBN-13: 9780190933982

Edition: 2019

Authors: Susan Leigh Foster

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Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It examines two ways that dance can be exchanged, as commodity and as gift, reflecting on how each establishes dance's relative worth and merit differently. When and why do we give dance? Where and to whom do we sell it? How are such acts of exchange…

Book details

Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English