Dancing on the Canon: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance

Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate complex expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice.

Author: S. Dodds
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/24/2011
Pages: 235
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230579958

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/09/2011 pg. 16
Choice 01/01/2012

About the Author
SHERRIL DODDS Head of the Department of Dance, Film and Theatre at the University of Surrey. She leads the Performances of the Popular research group and co-organizes the POP MOVES research events. She is also author of Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art.