| Description |
x, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Maverick men in ballet: rethinking the making it macho strategy / Jennifer Fisher -- What we know about boys who dance: the limitations of contemporary masculinity and dance education / Doug Risner -- Is dance a man's sport too? The performance of athletic-coded masculinity on the concert dance stage / Maura Keefe -- Transcending gender in ballet's lines / Jill Nunes Jensen -- The performance of unmarked masculinity / Ramsay Burt -- Pricked dances: the spectator, dance, and masculinity in early 18th-century England / John Bryce Jordan -- Gender trumps race? Cross-dressing Juba in early blackface minstrelsy / Stephen Johnson -- Ausdruckstanz, workers' culture, and masculinity in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s / Yvonne Hardt -- Choreographing masculinity: hypermasculine dance styles as invented tradition in Egypt, Iran, and Uzbekistan / Anthony Shay -- Native motion and imperial emotion: male performers of the orient and the politics of the imperial gaze / Stavros Stavrou Karayanni -- Ibrahim Farrah: dancer, teacher, choreographer, publisher / Barbara Sellers-Young -- From gynemimemis to hypermasculinity: the shifting orientations of male performers of south Indian court dance / Hari Krishnan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Male dancers.
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Male dancers -- History.
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Male dancers -- Social conditions.
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Masculinity.
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Gender identity in dance.
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Dance -- Sociological aspects.
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Dance -- Anthropological aspects.
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| Author |
Fisher, Jennifer, 1949-
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Shay, Anthony, 1936-
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| LC no. |
2008050034 |
| ISBN |
9780195386691 alkaline paper |
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9780195386707 alkaline paper |
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