Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

Name: Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
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ISBN: 9780333724323

ISBN-10: 0333724321

ISBN-13: 9780333724323

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Helen Thomas

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List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Helen Thomas is Director of Doctoral Programmes at the University of the Arts, London, UK.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Cultural Bodies



The Body in Culture: Before the Body Project


Introduction


Before the body project


The body as symbol


Non-verbal communication



The Body in Culture: The Body Project


Introduction


Bodies of difference


Bodies of discourse


Technologies of power


'Get undressed--but be slim, good-looking and tanned!'


Transcending the body/mind dualism?



Ethnography Dances Back


Introduction


Varieties of ethnography


Postmodernism and feminism: 'the awkward relation'


The researcher as object


Dance ethnography as a situated reflexive bodily practice



Dance, the Body and Cultural Theory



The Body in Dance


Introduction


'The sensible and the intelligible'


The celebration of the visual in ballet


The sense of touch in contact improvisation


Bodily sensing in ballet and contact improvisation


Technical shifts and aesthetic transformations


Water Study--then and now



Reconstructing the Dance: In Search of Authenticity?


Introduction


The real thing?


Reconstruction in context


Varieties of musical authenticity


Dance as it was


Dance as it is/dance as it was


Dance as it is


'Performance museums' and lived traditions



Dance and Difference: Performing/Representing/Rewriting the Body


Introduction


Exoticism, eroticism and auto-eroticism


Representations of women in western theatrical dance


Dance and body politics


Dancing bodies/subjects-in-process


Dance as a metaphor for 'writing the body'



Dancing the Night Away: Rave/Club Culture


Introduction


The 1950s dance hall experience and the 1990s club experience compared


From acid house to rave culture


Dance culture, youth culture and subculture


From subcultures to club cultures


Conclusion


Notes


References


Name Index


Subject index