{"product_id":"meaning-in-motion-jane-c-desmond-9780822319429","title":"Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance","description":"Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. Yet only recently have studies of dance become concerned with the ideological, theoretical, and social meanings of dance practices, performances, and institutions. In \u003ci\u003eMeaning in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e, Jane C. Desmond brings together the work of critics who have ventured into the boundaries between dance and cultural studies, and thus maps a little-known and rarely explored critical site. \u003cbr\u003e Writing from a broad range of perspectives, contributors from disciplines as varied as art history and anthropology, dance history and political science, philosophy and women's studies chart the questions and challenges that mark this site. How does dance enact or rework social categories of identity? How do meanings change as dance styles cross borders of race, nationality, or class? How do we talk about materiality and motion, sensation and expressivity, kinesthetics and ideology? The authors engage these issues in a variety of contexts: from popular social dances to the experimentation of the avant-garde; from nineteenth-century ballet and contemporary Afro-Brazilian Carnival dance to hip hop, the dance hall, and film; from the nationalist politics of folk dances to the feminist philosophies of modern dance. Giving definition to a new field of study, \u003ci\u003eMeaning in Motion \u003c\/i\u003ebroadens the scope of dance analysis and extends to cultural studies new ways of approaching matters of embodiment, identity, and representation. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e Ann Cooper Albright, Evan Alderson, Norman Bryson, Cynthia Cohen Bull, Ann Daly, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Susan Foster, Mark Franko, Marianne Goldberg, Amy Koritz, Susan Kozel, Susan Manning, Randy Martin, Angela McRobbie, Kate Ramsey, Anna Scott, Janet Wolff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane C. Desmond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082231942X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822319429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.48h x 6.00w x 1.16d","brand":"Jane C. Desmond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46070245163263,"sku":"9780822319429","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c6981e5-6816-4da5-8d10-7bfd450058b1.jpg?v=1724242690","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/meaning-in-motion-jane-c-desmond-9780822319429","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}