Moving words : re-writing dance / edited by Gay Morris.

Other author Morris, Gay, 1940-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Descriptionxiv, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents Musical/choreographic discourse : method, music theory, and meaning / Stephanie Jordan -- Visible secrets : style analysis and dance literacy / Marcia B. Siegel -- Five theses on Laughter after all / Mark Franko -- Do you want to join the dance? : postmodernism/poststructuralism, the body, and dance / Helen Thomas -- Re/moving boundaries : from dance history to cultural studies / Amy Koritz -- Simmering passivity : the black male body in concert dance / Thomas DeFrantz -- Being danced again : Meredith Monk, reclaiming the girlchild / Leslie Satin -- "Styles of the flesh" : gender in the dances of Mark Morris / Gay Morris -- Uncanny women and anxious masters : reading Coppélia against Freud / Gwen Bergner and Nicole Plett -- American document and Amercican minstrelsy / Susan Manning -- The culture of nobility/the nobility of self-cultivation / Judy Burns -- Jazz modernism / Constance Valis Hill -- Observing the evidence fail : difference arising from objectification in cross-cultural studies of dance / Sally Ann Ness -- Cross-cultural differences in the interpretation of Merce Cunningham's choreography / Miwa Nagura -- Dance discourses : rethinking the history of the "oriental dance" / Joan L. Erdman -- Balkan tradition, American alternative : dance, community, and the people of the pines / June Adler Vail -- High critics/low arts / Carol Martin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95039924
ISBN0415125421 (hardcover)
ISBN9780415125420 (hardcover)
ISBN041512543X (pbk.)
ISBN9780415125437 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks GV1600 .M68 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold