Dancing on the Canon
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Dancing on the Canon

Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance

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Dancing on the Canon

Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance

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Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate complex expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230305656

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Also by
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: Let’s Dance!
  11. Part I Understanding Value
  12. 1 Dancing on the Canon
  13. 2 The Value(s) of Cultural Studies
  14. 3 What Is Popular Dance?
  15. 4 Writing Popular Dance
  16. 5 Embodiments of Value
  17. Part IIDancing Values
  18. Introduction
  19. 6 ‘Naughty but Nice’: Re- Articulations of Value in Neo- Burlesque Striptease
  20. 7 Pogoing, Headbanging and Skanking: Economies of Value in Dancing Subcultures
  21. 8 ‘There’s a Land That I’ve Heard About’: Envisioning Value at Sunday Serenade
  22. Conclusion: The Value of Popular Dance
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index