Social Choreography - Ideology As Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hewitt Klappentext Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order. Zusammenfassung Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Social Choreography and the Aesthetic Continuum 1 1. The Body of Marsyas: Aesthetic Socialism and the Physiology of the Sublime 37 2. Stumbling and Legibility: Gesture and the Dialectic of Tact 78 3. "America Makes Me Sick!": Nationalism, Race, Gender, and Hysteria 117 4. The Scandalous Male Icon: Nijinsky and the Queering of Symbolist Aesthetics 156 5. From Women to Girl: Mass Culture and Gender Panic 177 Notes 213 Index 249

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Hewitt, Hewitt, Andrew Hewitt
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2005
• EAN: 9780822335023
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3502-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet