Binding: Paperback
Description: This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in and through culture. By drawing on material relevant to students Dance in US Popular Culture successfully introduces students to critical thinking around the most personal of terrain: our bodies and our identities. The book asks readers to think about: what embodied knowledge we carry with us and how we can understand history and society through that lens what stereotypes and accompanying expectations are embedded in performance related to gender and/or race for instance how such expectations are reinforced negotiated challenged embraced or rescripted by performers and audiences how readers articulate their own sense of complex identity within the constantly shifting landscape of popular culture how this shapes an active sense of their everyday lives and how this can act as a springboard towards dismantling systems of oppression Through readings questions movement analyses and assignment prompts that take students from computer to nightclub and beyond Dance in US Popular Culture readers develop their own cultural sense of dance and the moving body's sociopolitical importance while also determining how dance is fundamentally applicable to their own identity. This is the ideal textbook for high school and undergraduate students of dance and dance studies in B a and Bf A courses as well as those studying popular culture from interdisciplinary perspectives including cultural studies media studies communication studies theater and performance studies. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC - BY 4.0 license.
Title: Dance In Us Popular Culture
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367819842
Pages: 358 Pages, 30 Halftones, Black And White; 30 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 7/21/2023
Category: Media Studies