Dancing on the Canon: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance

By Sherril Dodds

Book Overview

Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate complex expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137437375
• ISBN13: 9781137437372
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"