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  • © 2003

The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

Authors:

  1. Helen Thomas
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  • Brings together two literatures, on theories of the body and dance studies, that have surprisingly not before been connected
    Develops new insights into both literatures by exploring these new connections
    Written by an author with a lucid and original style

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Helen Thomas
      Pages 1-5

  3. Cultural Bodies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    3. The Body in Culture: The Body Project

      • Helen Thomas
      Pages 34-63

    4. Ethnography Dances Back

      • Helen Thomas
      Pages 64-88

  4. Dance, the Body and Cultural Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. The Body in Dance

      • Helen Thomas
      Pages 91-120

    5. Dancing the Night Away: Rave/Club Culture

      • Helen Thomas
      Pages 177-211

    6. Conclusion

      • Helen Thomas
      Pages 213-216

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 217-262
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About this book

This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.
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About the author

HELEN THOMAS is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has published numerous articles on dance and presented papers on her work in Europe, North America and Japan. She is editor of Dance, Gender and Culture and Dance in the City, and is author of Dance, Modernity and Culture. She recently completed an AHRB funded study, Dancing into the Third Age: Social Dance as Cultural Text.
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