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: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9781137437372

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.