Dancing on the Canon: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance
- Author: Dodds, Sherril
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,... — More…
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Contents
- 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