Social Choreography - Ideology As Performance In Dance And Everyday Movement

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hewitt Klappentext ""Social Choreography" is an intelligent, precisely argued new take on longstanding issues regarding the relationship of ideologies and aesthetics, one which invigorates those debates through its encounter with the visual and kinesthetic materiality of dance forms."--Jane Desmond, editor of "Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance" 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
• Assisted by: Stanley Fish (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2005
• EAN: 9780822335146
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3514-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works