Name: Dance in the City
ISBN: 978-0-230-37921-3

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Helen Thomas (Senior Lecturer)⁰

Helen Thomas
1. Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiv

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Dance in the City/The City in Dance
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 1-1
  
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2. Dancing around Meaning (and the Meaning around Dance)
  
  Andrew Ward
  
  Pages 3-20
3. Exer(or)cising Power: Black Bodies in the Black Public Sphere
  
  Paul Gilroy
  
  Pages 21-34
4. ‘Keep Your Great City Paris!’ — The Lament of the Empress and other Women
  
  Valerie A. Briginshaw
  
  Pages 35-49
5. The Beat Goes On: Trance, Dance and Tribalism in Rave Culture
  
  Georgiana Gore
  
  Pages 50-67
6. Dirt, Noise, Traffic: Contemporary Indian Dance in the Western City; Modernity, Ethnicity and Hybridity
  
  Sanjoy Roy
  
  Pages 68-85
Stepping Out
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 87-87
  
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2. Ballroom Blitz
  
  Helen Thomas, Nicola Miller
  
  Pages 89-110
3. Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine
  
  Maria Pini
  
  Pages 111-129
4. Madame Smudge, Some Fossils, and Other Missing Links: Unearthing the Ballet Class
  
  Lesley-Anne Sayers
  
  Pages 130-148
5. Safe Sets: Women, Dance and ‘Communitas’
  
  Barbara O’Connor
  
  Pages 149-172
Border Country
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 173-173
  
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2. Nazism and the Call of the Jitterbug
  
  Les Back
  
  Pages 175-197
3. Aerobic Dance and the City: Individual and Social Space
  
  Stacey Prickett
  
  Pages 198-217
4. Dance and Erotica: The Construction of the Female Stripper
  
  Sherril Dodds
  
  Pages 218-233
5. Let’s Face the Music — and Dance?: Torvill and Dean — ‘Champagne on Ice’
  
  Stephanie Jordan, Helen Thomas
  
  Pages 234-243
Back Matter

Pages 245-254

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About this book

This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. It highlights a diversity of dance forms and styles that can be witnessed in and around contemporary urban spaces: from dance halls to raves and the club striptease; from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance shows; from the ballet class, to fitness aerobics; and 'art' dance which situates itself in a dynamic relation to the city.

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Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK

Helen Thomas

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Book Title: Dance in the City
Editors: Helen Thomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379213
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-17453-8Published: 12 October 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-17454-5Published: 21 July 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37921-3Published: 21 July 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 254
Topics: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Culture, Dance, Cultural Studies, Sociology, general

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

Front Matter

Dance in the City/The City in Dance

Front Matter

Stepping Out

Front Matter

Border Country

Front Matter

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About this book

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Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK

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