Dancing on the canon
Subtitle: embodiments of value in popular dance
By: Sherril Dodds
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780230579958
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General; Social aspects; PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern; Dance; Popular culture; PERFORMING ARTS / General
Description: "This monograph explores the vexed relationship between popular dance and value. In a critique of the Western art canon, it traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate multiple and often paradoxical expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice. Employing a cultural theory approach, it focuses on the choreographic content of neo-burlesque striptease in London and New York, the dance styles of British punk, metal and ska fans, and the vernacular dances of a British-Caribbean dancehall to interrogate how value is produced, negotiated and reimagined. Yet this is not to assume that they are autonomous values untouched by the social frameworks in which they exist. Rather, the corporeal enunciations of value constructed by those engaged in popular dance forms are informed by a complex matrix of aesthetic, economic, political and social values that are already in circulation"--Publisher's description, back cover.
Notes: Includes index.