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Dancing Culture Religion

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 2012

Summary

In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves into the many factions of dancing: moving, gesturing, self-othering, playing, seducing, and masking. Gill also draws on the analysis of contemporary dance films and musicals, his experience as a dancer and dance teacher, his extensive research on dance traditions, and his interest in neurobiology and phenomenology to develop the core of this rich exploration of “dancing,” the structurality of all dances.

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Edition
1/2012
Copyright Year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7472-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7474-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
219
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
  1. Preface No access Pages 1 - 10
  2. Chapter One: Moving No access Pages 11 - 60
  3. Chapter Two: Gesturing No access Pages 61 - 100
  4. Chapter Three: Self-Othering No access Pages 101 - 122
  5. Chapter Four: Playing No access Pages 123 - 170
  6. Chapter Five: Seducing No access Pages 171 - 192
  7. Chapter Six: Dancing No access Pages 193 - 204
  8. Bibliography No access Pages 205 - 208
  9. Index No access Pages 209 - 218
  10. About the Author No access Pages 219 - 219

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