Researching dance : evolving modes of inquiry / edited by Sondra Horton Fraleigh and Penelope Hanstein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1999.Description: xii, 368 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0822940841 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 9780822940845 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0822956845 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780822956846 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.8072 FRA
LOC classification:
  • GV1589 .R47 1999
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Contents:
Part I. Context, Process, and Theory : Ch. 1 Family resemblance / Sondra Horton Fraleigh -- Ch. 2 From idea to research proposal: balancing the systematic and serendipitous / Penelope Hanstein -- Ch. 3 Models and metaphors: theory making and the creation of new knowledge / Penelope Hanstein -- Part II. Modes of Inquiry and Dance Research Methods : Ch. 4 Postpositivist research in dance / Jill Green and Susan W. Stinson -- Ch. 5 Scientific exploration in dance / Steven J. Chatfield -- Ch. 6 Dance in the hermeneutic circle / Joann McNamara -- Ch. 7 Witnessing the frog pond / Sondra Horton Fraleigh -- Ch. 8 The sense of the past: historiography and dance / Shelley C. Berg -- Ch. 9 Dance ethnography : tracing the weave of dance in the fabric of culture / Joan D. Frosch -- 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 / Mary Alice Brennan -- Ch. 11 Engendering dance: feminist inquiry and dance research / Jane C. Desmond -- Ch. 12 Cultural diversity and dance history research / John O. Perpener III -- Ch. 13 Unified filed postscript / Sondra Horton Fraleigh and Penelope Hanstein.
Summary: "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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Books Books Academy of Music & Performing Arts Library General Stacks Non-fiction 792.8072 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A04657
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792.80712 SNO Dance : 792.807129441 HIN Creativity in dance : 792.80715 IBS CUA11 Live Performance Training Package / 792.8072 FRA Researching dance : 792.8076 LEG Introduction to modern dance techniques / 792.8081 BUR The male dancer : 792.8082 ADA Women and dance :

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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