| Description |
x, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Maverick men in ballet: rethinking the making it macho strategy / Jennifer Fisher -- What we know about boys who dance: the limitations of contemporary masculinity and dance education / Doug Risner -- Is dance a man's sport too? The performance of athletic-coded masculinity on the concert dance stage / Maura Keefe -- Transcending gender in ballet's lines / Jill Nunes Jensen -- The performance of unmarked masculinity / Ramsay Burt -- Pricked dances: the spectator, dance, and masculinity in early 18th-century England / John Bryce Jordan -- Gender trumps race? Cross-dressing Juba in early blackface minstrelsy / Stephen Johnson -- Ausdruckstanz, workers' culture, and masculinity in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s / Yvonne Hardt -- Choreographing masculinity: hypermasculine dance styles as invented tradition in Egypt, Iran, and Uzbekistan / Anthony Shay -- Native motion and imperial emotion: male performers of the orient and the politics of the imperial gaze / Stavros Stavrou Karayanni -- Ibrahim Farrah: dancer, teacher, choreographer, publisher / Barbara Sellers-Young -- From gynemimemis to hypermasculinity: the shifting orientations of male performers of south Indian court dance / Hari Krishnan. |
| Summary |
"When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. In many societies, the public performance of dance is regarded as a feminine activity, so that men who dance often operate in a sea of stereotypes. This volume's scholarly essays tackles the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives. Accompanying the theoretical chapters are a group of fascinating personal histories that complement their themes. The dancing male body emerges in its many contexts, from the ballet, modern, and popular dance world to stages in Georgian and Victorian England, Weimar Germany, India and the Middle East. The men who dance and those who analyze them tell stories that will be both familiar and surprising for insiders and outsiders alike." -- Publisher description. |
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Male dancers.
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Male dancers. |
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Male dancers -- History.
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History. |
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Male dancers -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Masculinity.
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Masculinity. |
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Gender identity in dance.
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Gender identity in dance. |
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Dance -- Sociological aspects.
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Dance -- Sociological aspects. |
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Dance -- Anthropological aspects.
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Dance -- Anthropological aspects. |
| Added Author |
Fisher, Jennifer, 1949-
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Shay, Anthony, 1936-
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| ISBN |
9780195386691 alkaline paper |
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0195386698 alkaline paper |
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9780195386707 alkaline paper |
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0195386701 alkaline paper |
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