Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives

Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest, there remains no thorough-going critical examination of the ways in which musicologists might engage with dance, thinking not only about specific repertoires or genres, but about fundamental commonalities between the two, including embodiment, agency, subjectivity and consciousness. This volume begins to fill this gap. Ten chapters illustrate a range of conceptual, historical and interpretive approaches that advance the interdisciplinary study of music and dance. This methodological eclecticism is a defining feature of the volume, integrating insights from critical theory, film and cultural studies, the visual arts, phenomenology, cultural anthropology and literary criticism into the study of music and dance.

Author: Davinia Caddy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/27/2020
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781108476188

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2021

About the Author
Caddy, Davinia: - Davinia Caddy writes about the interrelations between music, the visual arts and gesture. She is the author of The Ballets Russes and Beyond (Cambridge, 2012), and is currently working on projects related to contemporary musical culture, archival theory and practice.Clark, Maribeth: - Maribeth Clark is Associate Professor of Music at New College of Florida. Her articles on theatrical and social dance in mid-nineteenth-century Paris have appeared in the Journal of Musicology, 19th-Century Music, Musical Quarterly and several edited volumes. She is currently writing a monograph on the cultural history of whistling.

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