Overview
- Focuses on popular dance, as opposed to theatrical high art dance, and emphasises the geographical diversity that this medium covers
- Re-visits some of the most influential theories about how memory and performance intersect
- Foregrounds the roles of embodiment and the popular in remembering the past, adding valuable dimensions to interdisciplinary studies of memory
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Pedagogic Invocations of Afro-Diasporic Memory
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Manipulated Memory and Reclamation
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National Memories and Amnesias
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About this book
This book focuses on the myriad ways that people collectively remember or forget shared pasts through popular dance. In dance classes, nightclubs, family celebrations, tourist performances, on television, film, music video and the internet, cultural memories are shared and transformed by dancing bodies adapting yesterday’s steps to today’s concerns. The book gathers emerging and seasoned scholarly voices from a wide range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives to discuss cultural remembering and forgetting in diverse popular dance contexts. The contributors ask: how are Afro-diasporic memories invoked in popular dance classes? How are popular dance genealogies manipulated and reclaimed? What is at stake for the nation in the nationalizing of folk and popular dances? And how does mediated dancing transmit memory as feelings or affects? The book reveals popular dance to be vital to cultural processes of remembering and forgetting, allowing participants to pivot between alternative pasts, presents and futures.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Clare Parfitt is an interdisciplinary dance scholar and PhD Supervisor at the University of Chichester, UK. She is Chair of PoP Moves, an international network for popular dance research. From 2014-2016, she was Principal Investigator for the AHRC Leadership Fellowship project ‘Dancing with Memory’, which led to this edited collection.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Memory and Popular Dance
Book Subtitle: Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget
Editors: Clare Parfitt
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71083-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71082-8Published: 26 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71085-9Published: 27 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71083-5Published: 02 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 306
Topics: Dance, Memory Studies, Popular Culture