Funny moves: dance humor politics

'Funny Moves' explores the intersection of dance and humour and the political stakes of that intersection. Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, ten authors discuss instances of dance humour from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The...

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Weitere Verfasser: Savigliano, Marta Elena 1953- (HerausgeberIn), Schwadron, Hannah (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2025]
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:'Funny Moves' explores the intersection of dance and humour and the political stakes of that intersection. Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, ten authors discuss instances of dance humour from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The book articulates dance scholarship with theories of laughter, feminist theory, gender/sexuality studies, de/postcolonial studies, film studies, and critical race studies. Insisting that humour adds more than accessory or faulty moves to dance, it invites readers to consider funny moves as dance's Other - the exclusions that define dance and ensure that dance always skirts the ridiculous
Beschreibung:Includes index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 279 Seiten)
ISBN:9780197765807
DOI:10.1093/9780197765807.001.0001

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