{"product_id":"dance-theory-source-readings-from-two-millennia-of-western-dance-9780190059767","title":"Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millennia of Western Dance","description":"The history of dance theory has never been told. Writers in every age have theorized prescriptively, according to their own needs and ideals, and theorists themselves having continually asserted the lack of any pre-existing dance theory.\u003cem\u003e Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millenia of Western Dance \u003c\/em\u003erevives and reintegrates dance theory as a field of historical dance studies, presenting a coherent reading of the interaction of theory and practice during two millennia of dance history. In fifty-five selected readings with explanatory text, this book follows the various constructions of dance theories as they have morphed and evolved in time, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eDance Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of source readings that, commensurate with current teaching practice, foregrounds dance and performance theory in its presentation of western dance forms. Divided into nine chapters organized chronologically by historical era and predominant intellectual and artistic currents, the book presents a history of an idea from one generation to another. Each chapter contains introductions that not only provide context and significance for the individual source readings, but also create narrative threads that link different chapters and time periods. Based entirely on primary sources, the book makes no claim to cite every source, but rather, in connecting the dots between significant high points, it attempts to trace a coherent and fair narrative of the evolution of dance theory as a concept in Western culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13075519\"\u003eTilden Russell\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190059767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190059761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER003100\"\u003eDance | History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTilden Russell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Music at Southern Connecticut State University. \u003cem\u003eThe Compleat Dancing Master \u003c\/em\u003e(2012), his two-volume translation with commentary of Gottfried Taubert's \u003cem\u003eRechtschaffener Tantzmeister, \u003c\/em\u003e received the Society of Dance History Scholars' de la Torre Bueno Prize Special Citation. He further explores early eighteenth-century German dance theory in\u003cem\u003e Theory and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Dance: The German-French Connection \u003c\/em\u003e(2017), and is co-author, with Dominique Bourassa, of \u003cem\u003eThe Menuet de la cour \u003c\/em\u003e(2007). He has written and lectured on Taubert and his contemporaries, dance theory, the minuet and scherzo, and other topics in dance and music history, with articles published in\u003cem\u003e Dance Research\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Dance Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Musicology, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Musical Quarterly, Acta musicologica, Imago musicae, Beethoven Forum, The New Grove \u003c\/em\u003e2nd edition, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44590431404269,"sku":"9780190059767","price":58.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_620d5b04-70f0-4e24-95fa-4053eb40d391.jpg?v=1702258164","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/dance-theory-source-readings-from-two-millennia-of-western-dance-9780190059767","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}