Dancing on the Canon
Subtitle: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780230317710; 9780230305656
Subjects: Social aspects; Sport & Recreation; Populaire cultuur; Fine Arts; Dance; Popular culture; Dans
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: List of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: Let's Dance!; title: PART I: UNDERSTANDING VALUE; title: Dancing on the Canon; title: The Value(s) of Cultural Studies; title: What is Popular Dance?; title: Writing Popular Dance; title: Embodiments of Value; title: PART II: DANCING VALUES; title: 'Naughty but Nice': (Re)Articulations of Value in Neo-Burlesque Striptease; title: Pogoing, Headbanging and Skanking: Economies of Value in Dancing Subcultures; title: 'There's a Land That I've Dreamed About': Envisioning Value at Sunday Serenade; title: Conclusion: The Value of Popular Dance.