Dancing on the Canon: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance

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

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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.

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Dodds here contextualizes and challenges the traditionally low value accorded popular social dances within dance scholarship...Including 19 photographs, useful endnotes, and an extensive bibliography, this book will be a worthwhile resource for those interested in dance, gender and sexuality, and popular culture. Summing Up:Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals

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