The second edition of The Routledge Dance Studies Reader offers fresh critical perspectives on classic and modern dance forms; including ballroom; tango; Hip-hop; site-specific performance; and disability in dance.Alexandra Carter and Janet Orsquo;Shea deliver a substantially revised and updated collection of key texts; featuring an enlightening new introduction; which tracks differing approaches to dance studies. Important articles from the first edition are accompanied by twenty new works by leading critical voices. The articles are presented in five thematic sections; each with a new editorial introduction and further reading. Sections cover:Making dancePerforming danceWays of lookingLocating dance in history and societyDebating the disciplineThe Routledge Dance Studies Reader gives readers access to over thirty essential texts on dance and provides expert guidance on their critical context. It is a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding dance from a global and contemporary perspective.
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful. only if you like readingBy bobQuite and utterly inaccessible. If you are into processing such an object by opening to page 0 and reading every single page in order then enjoy this. There are hardly and guides. shortcuts. subsequent abstracts.Be warned: the density of the writing is not light what so ever. It is not Foucault but it is not Butler. Enjoy death by academia!7 of 26 people found the following review helpful. wowBy S. JohnsonIn a book that covers art. underground music. film. politics. and television. Joselit somehow manages to say nothing of interest or value about any one of these. Epic in its banality. Wow.I would suggest that it makes a good primer for art and culture in the post-war period. but its over-zealous use of trendy neologisms is matched only by its "creative" use of sources. A real head-scratcher. even for those who read widely.Last but not least. one cant fail to poke fun at the closing "manifesto." A real treat for cynics.
