Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of dance and competition / edited by Sherril Dodds.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Dodds, Sherril, 1967-

Description

xx, 662 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Alternative Title

Handbook of dance and competition

Subjects

• Dance > Social aspects
• Dance > Competitions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: competition culture: winning and losing at dance / Sherril Dodds -- 1. Taking the cake : Black dance, competition, and value / Nadine George-Graves -- 2. You've got to sell it! : performing on the dance competition stage / Karen Schupp -- 3. Competitive capers : gender, gentility, and dancing in early modern England / Emily Winerock -- 4. Endangered strangers : tracking competition in US federal dance funding / Sarah Wilbur -- 5. Marking your territory : the struggle to work in flamenco / Kathy Milazzo -- 6. Reappropriating choreographies of authenticity in Mexico : competitions and the dance of the old men / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco -- 7. Above and beyond the battle : virtuosity and excess within televised street dance crew competitions / Laura Robinson -- 8. Shiftng dynamics : Sean Nós dancing, vernacular expression, and the competitive arena of the Oireachtas / Catherine E. Foley -- 9. Visible rhythms : competition in English tap practice / Sally Crawford-Shepherd -- 9. The International Dancehall Queen Competition : a discursive space for competing images of femininity / Celena Monteiro -- 11. Congratulations, we wish you success : competition and community participation in Romanian dance festivals / Liz Mellish -- 12. Non-competitive body states : corporeal freedom and innovation in contemporary dance / Nalina Wait and Erin Brannigan -- 13. Reclaiming competitive tango : the rise of Argentina's Campeonato Mundial / Juliet McMains -- 14. Dance-off, or a battle for the future : dance reality shows in India / Pallabi Chakravorty -- 15. Miss Exotic World : judging the neo-burlesque movement / Kaitlyn Regehr -- 16. Rapper dance adjudication : aesthetics, discourse, and decision making / Jeremy Carter-Gordon -- 17. Dismantling the genre : reality dance competitions and layers of affective intensification / Elena Benthaus -- 18. Why are breaking battles judged? : the rise of international competitions / Mary Fogarty -- 19. Not another Don Quixote! : negotiating China's position on the international ballet stage / Rowan McLelland -- 20. Dancing with the Asian American stars : Margaret Cho and the failure to win / Yutian Wong -- 21. Loss of face : intimidation, derision, and failure in the hip hop battle / Sherril Dodds -- 22. Making play work : competition, spectacle, and intersubjectivity in hybrid martial arts / Janet O'Shea -- 23. You can't out-do Black people : Soul Train, queer witnessing, and pleasurable competition / Melissa Blanco Borelli -- 24. Freedom to compete : neoliberal contradictions in Gaga intensives / Meghan Quinlan -- 25. "We'll rumble 'em right" : aggression and play in the dance-offs of West Side Story / Ying Zhu and Daniel Belgrad -- 26. Dancing like a man : competition and gender in the New Orleans Second Line / Rachel Carrico -- 27. Man and money ready : challenge dancing in antebellum North America / April F. Masten -- Afterword : who is competing? / Susan Leigh Foster.

Call Number

*MGRL 19-531

ISBN

• 9780190639082
• 0190639083

LCCN

2018005395

OCLC

1032292243

Title

The Oxford handbook of dance and competition / edited by Sherril Dodds.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Dodds, Sherril, 1967- editor.

Research Call Number

*MGRL 19-531