Social partner dance: body, sound, and space

"Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnography of social partner dancing built on participant observations and interviews with instructors of tango, salsa, Lindy hop, blues dance, and various other forms. The work establishes a general analytical language for scholars of these...

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1. Verfasser: Kaminsky, David 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Routledge 2020
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Zusammenfassung:"Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnography of social partner dancing built on participant observations and interviews with instructors of tango, salsa, Lindy hop, blues dance, and various other forms. The work establishes a general analytical language for scholars of these ethnic and world music dances, presenting a microcosm that defines the possibilities of partnership both in terms of physical mechanics and social functions and processes. Each chapter begins with a brief vignette on distinct dance forms and explores the focused worlds of partnered dancing done for the joy and entertainment of the dancers themselves. Grounded intellectually in embodiment studies and sensory ethnography, and empirically in ethnographic fieldwork, Social Partner Dance promotes scholarship that understands the social, cultural, and political functions of partner dance through its embodied practice"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 09, 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780429344756
0429344759
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