Bodies of Sound: Studies Across Popular Music and Dance

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction: embodying sound/sounding bodies, Sherril Dodds and Susan C. Cook
• Part I Constructing the Popular: The problem of popularity: the cancan between the French and digital revolutions, Clare Parfitt-Brown
• Bellowhead: re-entering folk through a pop movement aesthetic, Sherril Dodds
• Sound understandings: embodied musical knowledge and 'connection' in a ballroom dance community, Joanna Bosse. Part II Authenticity, Revival and Reinvention: Dancing out of time: the forgotten Boston of Edwardian England, Theresa Jill Buckland
• The English folk voice: singing and cultural identity in the English folk revival, 1955-65, Simon Featherstone
• Halling as a tool for nationalistic strategies, Anne Margrete Fiskvik. Part III (Re)Framing Value: Rocking the rhythm: dancing identities in drum 'n' bass club culture, Joanna Hall
• Authenticity, uplift, and cultural value in Bahian samba junino, Danielle Robinson and Jeff Packman
• Hierarchical reversals: the interplay of dance and music in West Side Story, Rachel Duerden and Bonnie Rowell
• Talking machines, dancing bodies: marketing recorded dance music before World War I, Susan C. Cook. Part IV Politics of the Popular: Superficial profundity: performative translation of the dancing body in contemporary Taiwanese popular culture, Chih-Chie
• Keeping the faith: issues of identity, spectacle and embodiment in Northern Soul, Laura Robinson
• Jazz, dance and Black British identities, Catherine Tackley
• Epilogue: terms of engagement, Sherril Dodds and Susan C. Cook
• Bibliography
• Index.