Choreomania: Dance and Disorder
- Author: Gotman, Kelina
Choreomania is as progressive in its historical methodologies as it is in its provocative analyses of heretofore undertheorized modes of movement, dance and gesture. I have no doubt that it will... — More…
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Contents
- CONTENTS
- List of illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Choreomania, Another Orientalism
- Part I: Excavating Dance in the Archives
- 1. Obscuritas Antiquitatis: Institutions, Affiliations, Marginalia
- 2. Madness after Foucault: Medieval Bacchanals
- 3. Translatio: St. Vitus's Dance, Demonism and the Early Modern
- 4. The Convulsionaries: Antics on the French Revolutionary Stage
- 5. Mobiles, Mobs and Monads: Nineteenth-Century Crowd Forms
- 6. Medecine Retrospective: Hysteria's Archival Drag
- Part II: Colonial and Postcolonial Stages: Scenes of Ferment in the Field
- 7. Sicily Implies Asia and Africa: Tarantellas and Comparative Method
- 8. Ecstasy-belonging in Madagascar and Brazil
- 9. Ghost Dancing: Excess, Waste and the American West
- 10. The Gift of Seeing Resemblances: Cargo Cults in the Antipodes
- 11. Monstrous Grace: Blackness and the New Dance Crazes
- 12. Coda: Moving Fields, Modernity and the Bacchic Chorus
- Bibliography