Dance Rituals of Experience

ISBN-10: 0195112059

ISBN-13: 9780195112054

Edition: 3rd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Jamake Highwater

List price: $43.99

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This book presents a powerful view of the history of dance, contrasting its role in Western civilization with its significance in other cultures. Highwater--a renowned critic, author, and lecturer on art, theater, music, and dance--links the history of dance to cultural forces as diverse as Karl Marx and Elvis Presley. Beginning with the original, ritualistic, and primal forms of dance, he traces its decline into empty ceremonial forms while all along insisting that dance is a fundamental life impulse made visible in motion--a spontaneous transformation of experience into metaphoric meaning. Considering the historical and creative context from which dance emerged, Highwater goes on to point…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/12/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 10.51" wide x 8.15" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English