| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part 1. Understanding value. Dancing on the canon -- The value(s) of cultural studies -- What is popular dance? -- Writing popular dance -- Embodiments of value -- Part 2. Dancing values. 'Naughty but nice': re-articulations of value in neo-burlesque striptease -- Pogoing, headbanging and skanking: economies of value in dancing subcultures -- 'There's a land that I've heard about': envisioning value at Sunday serenade -- Conclusion: the value of popular dance |
| Summary |
"This monograph explores the vexed relationship between popular dance and value. In a critique of the Western art canon, it traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate multiple and often paradoxical expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice. Employing a cultural theory approach, it focuses on the choreographic content of neo-burlesque striptease in London and New York, the dance styles of British punk, metal and ska fans, and the vernacular dances of a British-Caribbean dancehall to interrogate how value is produced, negotiated and reimagined. Yet this is not to assume that they are autonomous values untouched by the social frameworks in which they exist. Rather, the corporeal enunciations of value constructed by those engaged in popular dance forms are informed by a complex matrix of aesthetic, economic, political and social values that are already in circulation"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-231) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Dance -- Social aspects.
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Popular culture
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Popular Culture
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popular culture.
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Contemporary dance.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Classical & Ballet.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Modern.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Reference.
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Dance -- Social aspects
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Popular culture
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Contemporary dance -- Classical style.
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Performing Arts.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011011814 |
| ISBN |
9780230305656 |
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0230305652 |
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9780230317710 |
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0230317715 |
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1283209918 |
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9781283209915 |
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9786613209917 |
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6613209910 |
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