In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholar...

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Other Authors:	Kowal, Rebekah 1966- (Editor), Siegmund, Gerald 1963- (Editor), Martin, Randy 1957-2015 (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Oxford University Press [2017]
Subjects:	Geschichte 1900-2016 Gesellschaft Politik Dance > Political aspects Dance > Social aspects Soziale Funktion Tanz Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholars Rebekah Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and the late Randy Martin presents a compendium of newly-commissioned chapters that address the interdisciplinary and global scope of dance theory - its political philosophy, social movements, and approaches to bodily difference such as disability, postcolonial, and critical race and queer studies. In six sections 30 of the most prestigious dance scholars in the US and Europe track the political economy of dance and analyze the political dimensions of choreography, of writing history, and of embodied phenomena in general. Employing years of intimate knowledge of dance and its cultural phenomenology, scholars urge readers to re-think dominant cultural codes, their usages, and the meaning they produce and theorize ways dance may help to re-signify and to re-negotiate established cultural practices and their inherent power relations.
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	xiv, 634 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780199928187