| Description |
x, 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations |
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SUNY series in communication studies |
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SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
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SUNY series in communication studies.
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| Contents |
1. The contested landscape of ballroom dance : culture, gender, race, class, and nationality in performance -- 2. Dancing through different worlds : an autoethnography of the interactive body and virtual emotions in ballroom dance -- 3. Ballroom dance and the movies -- 4. Paving the road to the Olympics : staging and financing the Olympic dream -- 5. Packaging fantasy and morality -- 6. Quo Vadis? -- App. Filmography of selected dancesport and ballroom films |
| Summary |
"Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasing international anxiety over how and whether to transform ballroom into an Olympic sport. Writing as a participant-critic, Picart suggests that both are crucial sites where bodies are packaged as racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and classed objects. In addition, Picart argues, as the choreography, costuming, and genre of ballroom and DanceSport continue to evolve, these theatrical productions are aestheticized and constructed to encourage commercial appeal, using the narrative frame of the competitive melodrama to heighten audience interest."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index |
| Subject |
Ballroom dancing -- Social aspects.
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Popular culture.
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| LC no. |
2005001027 |
| ISBN |
0791466302 paperback alkaline paper |
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0791466299 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780791466292 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780791466308 paperback alkaline paper |
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