TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris,Gay
TI  - Moving words: re-writing dance 
SN  - 0415125421 (hardcover)
AV  - GV1600 .M68 1996
U1  - 792.8 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Dance criticism
KW  - Dance
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction --; PART I Strategies, Analytical and Interpretive; 2. Musical/choreographic discourse: method, music theory, and meaning /; Stephanie Jordan --; 3. Visible secrets: style analysis and dance literacy /; Marcia B. Siegel --; 4. Five theses on Laughter after all; Mark Franko --; 5. Do you want to join the dance?: postmodernism/poststructuralism, the body, and dance /; Helen Thomas --; 6. Re/moving boundaries : from dance history to cultural studies /; Amy Koritz --; PART II The Body and Gender; 7. Simmering passivity: the black male body in concert dance /; Thomas DeFrantz --; 8. Being danced again: Meredith Monk, reclaiming the girlchild /; Leslie Satin --; 9. "Styles of the flesh": gender in the dances of Mark Morris /; Gay Morris --; 10. Uncanny women and anxious masters: reading Coppélia against Freud /; Gwen Bergner and Nicole Plett --; PART III Histories Reconsidered; 11. American document and American minstrelsy /; Susan Manning --; 12. The culture of nobility/the nobility of self-cultivation /; Judy Burns --; 13. Jazz modernism /; Constance Valis Hill --; PART IV Cultural Crossings; 14. Observing the evidence fail: difference arising from objectification in cross-cultural studies of dance /; Sally Ann Ness --; 15. Cross-cultural differences in the interpretation of Merce Cunningham's choreography /; Miwa Nagura --; 16. Dance discourses: rethinking the history of the "oriental dance" /; Joan L. Erdman --; 17. Balkan tradition, American alternative: dance, community, and the people of the pines /; June Adler Vail --; 18. High critics/low arts /; Carol Martin
N2  - "Dance scholarship is in the midst of explosive growth today, due in part to the current interest in the body, gender, and in performance studies in general, as well as to dancers and choreographers whose innovative work is reinvigorating the performance-going public's interest in dance. Now Moving Words offers students, scholars, and critics of dance and performance the latest word on the debates swirling within the world of dance.

Contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same time examing broader issues, such as the body, gender, class, race, nationalism, and cross-cultural exchange. Specific essays address such topics as the black male body in dance, gender and subversions in the dances of Mark Morris, race and nationalism in Martha Graham's American Document, and the history of Asian dance." -- Publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/95039924-d.html
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