Descripción
Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture.
The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, autoethnography, pedagogies and creative processes, and choreographies as cultural and spiritual representations. The contributors bring an insiders insight to their accounts of the nature and function of these artistic practices, giving voice to dancers, dance teachers, creators, programmers, spectators, students, and scholars.
International and intergenerational, this collection of groundbreaking scholarly research points to a new direction for both dance studies and dance anthropology. Traditionally the exclusive domain of aesthetic philosophers, the art of dance is here reframed as cultural practice, and its significance is revealed through a chorus of voices from practitioners and insider ethnographers.
Author: Dena Davida
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 10/01/2011
Pages: 486
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781554583416
ISBN10: 1554583411
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Performing Arts | Dance | History & Criticism
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social