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Susan Leigh Foster - Valuing Dance, Inbunden

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Valuing Dance

Commodities and Gifts in Motion

Av Susan Leigh Foster

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Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It examines two ways that dance can be exchanged, as commodity and as gift, reflecting on how each establishes dance's relative worth and merit differently. When and why do we give dance? Where and to whom do we sell it? How are such acts of exchange rationalized and justified? Valuing Dance poses these questions in order to contribute to a conversation around what dance is, what it does, and why it matters.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-03-21
  • Mått: 239 x 160 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 584 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 264
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780190933975
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Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer and scholar, is the author of numerous books and essays and editor of several anthologies on dance and the body. Three of her danced lectures can be found at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage website http://danceworkbook.pcah.us/susan-foster/index.html.

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Valuing Dance maintains this duality of dance -- between gift function and commodity exchange -- by showing that most dance forms flicker between commodity and gift and are not wholly subsumed by one value system. ... In advocating for dance-as-gift, Valuing Dance is not being nostalgic or Pollyannaish; rather, it strives to identify and preserve the dynamism of dance. To do so is urgent, Foster argues, because it's only as gift that dance "function[s] to stabilize a society and to affirm continuity and strength in the face of loss, impermanence, and change."

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