Researching dance :

Researching dance : evolving modes of inquiry / edited by Sondra Horton Fraleigh and Penelope Hanstein. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1999. - xii, 368 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Context, Process, and Theory : Ch. 1 Family resemblance / Ch. 2 From idea to research proposal: balancing the systematic and serendipitous / Ch. 3 Models and metaphors: theory making and the creation of new knowledge / Part II. Modes of Inquiry and Dance Research Methods : Ch. 4 Postpositivist research in dance / Ch. 5 Scientific exploration in dance / Ch. 6 Dance in the hermeneutic circle / Ch. 7 Witnessing the frog pond / Ch. 8 The sense of the past: historiography and dance / Ch. 9 Dance ethnography : tracing the weave of dance in the fabric of culture / PART III. Research Tools and Issues Specific to Dance : Ch. 10 Every little movement has a meaning all its own : movement analysis in dance research / Ch. 11 Engendering dance: feminist inquiry and dance research / Ch. 12 Cultural diversity and dance history research / Ch. 13 Unified filed postscript / Sondra Horton Fraleigh -- Penelope Hanstein -- Penelope Hanstein -- Jill Green and Susan W. Stinson -- Steven J. Chatfield -- Joann McNamara -- Sondra Horton Fraleigh -- Shelley C. Berg -- Joan D. Frosch -- Mary Alice Brennan -- Jane C. Desmond -- John O. Perpener III -- Sondra Horton Fraleigh and Penelope Hanstein.

"In Researching Dance, an introduction to research methods in dance addressed primarily to graduate students, the editors explore dance as evolutional, defining it in view of it intrinsic participatory values, its developmental aspects, and its purposes from art to ritual, and they examine the role of theory in research." -- Book cover.

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