Choreographing history / edited by Susan Leigh Foster.

Other author Foster, Susan Leigh.
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
Descriptionvi, 257 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesUnnatural acts
Unnatural acts. ^A368397
Contents Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster -- Toward a universal language of motion : reflections on a seventeenth-century muscle man / Stephen Greenblatt -- Interval training / John J. MacAloon -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Tacit knowledge, courtliness, and the scientist's body / Mario Biagioli -- Music, the Pythagoreans, and the body / Susan McClary -- Agency and history : the demands of dance ethnography / Randy Martin -- Credit, novels, masturbation / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Advertising every body : images from the Japanese modern years / Miriam Silverberg -- Bodies of doctrine : headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras / Joseph Roach -- Modern dance in the Third Reich : six positions and a coda / Susan A. Manning -- The body's endeavors as cultural practices / Cynthia J. Novack -- Different personas : a history of one's own? / Lena Hammergren -- Meditations on the patriarchal Pythagorean pratfall and the lesbian Siamesian two-step / Sue-Ellen Case -- Thirteen ways of looking at Choreographing writing / Peggy Phelan -- Bodies of evidence : law and order, sexy machines, and the erotics of fieldwork among physicists / Sharon Traweek -- Bodies and their plots / Hayden White.
Local noteLittle-325010--305131040007O
Local noteLittle-325455--305131026385.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-247) and index.
LCCN 94003622
ISBN0253324114 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0253209358 (pa : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks GN298 .C48 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold