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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association.
'[Hamera] makes several prominent contributions to dance studies, and also to any scholarship interested in the relationship between community-building and the arts.' Theatre Journal
'As a practitioner of several disciplines...and as a resident of the global city wherein Hamera grounds her investigation, I recommend Dancing Communities not only as a text worth reading but, even more so, as a task worth rehearsing.' - Shakina Nayfack, Dance Research Journal
'There has been a longstanding belief by practitioners of community dance that participation in dance can be a force that can affect or change people's lives, usually for the better. This belief has wide currency, yet without much academic research to bolster it. Judith Hamera offers a unique and personal monograph that provides dance scholarship with a convincing argument, not only for community dance, but professional dance too.' - Sara Houston, Contemporary Theatre Review
'...an enviable synthesis of performance studies, dance studies, queer theory, critical geography, and cultural studies literature rendered in direct and purposeful prose...[and] an invaluable resource in teaching performance-centred research methods to graduate students... Dancing Communities is both beautiful and practical. The book is theoretically dense enough to reward re-reading, but written withsufficient clarity to give structure to a time-crunched graduate student's first pass through.' - David P. Terry, Text and Performance Quarterly
'This book deserves serious attention from dance and performance scholars. It is likely to influence the formulation of future studies that challenge understanding of the significance of a particular body mastering a technique.' - Theatre Survey
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dancing Communities
Book Subtitle: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City
Authors: Judith Hamera
Series Title: Studies in International Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626485
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00003-2Published: 08 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30233-4Published: 08 November 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62648-5Published: 08 November 2006
Series ISSN: 2947-4949
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 257
Topics: Performing Arts, Dance, Geology, Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies