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  • Facial Choreographies

    Performing the Face in Popular Dance

    by Sherril Dodds ...
    The face contributes a vital, yet often overlooked, component of dance performance. Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance examines what the face does in dance and what it may mean. Author Sherril Dodds focuses on popular presentational dance, which permits the face to be one of excess and spectacle, as well as disclosure or deception. The concept of facial choreography ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake

    A Social and Popular Dance Reader

    by Julie Malnig, Julie Malnig, Elizabeth Aldrich, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Yvonne Daniel, Sherril Dodds, Lisa Doolittle, David F García, Nadine George-Graves, Jurretta Jordan Heckscher, Constance Valis Hill0, Karen W Hubbard1, Tim Lawrence2, Carol Martin3, Juliet McMains4, Terry Monaghan5, Halifu Osumare6, Sally R Sommer7, May Gwin Waggoner8, Tim Wall9, Christina Zanfagna0 ...
    This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical inquiry. The essays cover different historical periods and styles; encompass regional influences from North and South America, Britain, Europe, and Africa; and emphasize a variety of methodological ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

    Edited by Dr. Sherril Dodds ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies

    Edited by Sherril Dodds ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Companions
    The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies brings together leading international dance scholars in this single collection to provide a vivid picture of the state of contemporary dance research. The book commences with an introduction that privileges dancing as both a site of knowledge formation and a methodological approach, followed by a provocative overview of the methods and problems that dance ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Bodies of Sound

    Studies Across Popular Music and Dance

    Edited by Sherril Dodds, Susan C. Cook ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals the intimate connections between the corporeal and the sonic in the creation, transmission and reception of popular dance and music, which is imagined here as ’bodies of sound’. The volume provokes a wide-ranging, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    The Living Canon

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    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies.In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston ... Read more

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  • Black Performance Theory

    Edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz, Anita Gonzalez ...
    Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • What Kind of Creatures Are We?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures.A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical reflection on all three ... Read more

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  • Hip

    The History

    by John Leland ...
    Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape - ... Read more

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  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner ...
    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

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  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

    Essays

    by Jesse McCarthy ...
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  • A Different Kind of Ethnography

    Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies

    Edited by Dara Culhane, Denielle Elliott ...
    Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The authors treat ethnography as a methodology that includes the whole process of ethnography, from ... Read more

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