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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Other Authors: Savigliano, Marta Elena 1953- (Editor), Schwadron, Hannah (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2025]
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:'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
Item Description:Includes index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 279 Seiten)
ISBN:9780197765807
DOI:10.1093/9780197765807.001.0001

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