Andrew Hewitt

Social Choreography

Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order.

Produktdetails

• Post-Contemporary Interventions
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335146
• ISBN-10: 082233514X
• Artikelnr.: 22472786

Autorenporträt

Andrew Hewitt

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Social Choreography and the Aesthetic Continuum 1
1. The Body of Marsyas: Aesthetic Socialism and the Physiology of the
Sublime 37
2. Stumbling and Legibility: Gesture and the Dialectic of Tact 78
3. "America Makes Me Sick!": Nationalism, Race, Gender, and Hysteria 117
4. The Scandalous Male Icon: Nijinsky and the Queering of Symbolist
Aesthetics 156
5. From Women to Girl: Mass Culture and Gender Panic 177
Notes 213
Index 249