Overview

This unparalleled collection, international and innovative in scope, analyzes the dynamic tensions between masculinity and dance. Introducing a lens of intersectionality, the book’s content examines why, despite burgeoning popular and contemporary representations of a normalization of dancing masculinities, some boys don’t dance and why many of those who do struggle to stay involved. Prominent themes of identity, masculinity, and intersectionality weave throughout the book’s conceptual frameworks of education and schooling, cultures, and identities in dance. Incorporating empirical studies, qualitative inquiry, and reflexive accounts, Doug Risner and Beccy Watson have assembled a unique volume of original chapters from established scholars and emerging voices to inform the future direction of interdisciplinary dance scholarship and dance education research. The book’s scope spans several related disciplines including gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, performance studies, and sociology. The volume will appeal to dancers, educators, researchers, scholars, students, parents, and caregivers of boys who dance. Accessible at multiple levels, the content is relevant for undergraduate students across dance, dance education, and movement science, and graduate students forging new analysis of dance, pedagogy, gender theory, and teaching praxis.

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Author:   Doug Risner ,  Beccy Watson
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.491kg
ISBN:  

9783030900021

ISBN 10:   3030900029
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   04 February 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS        1    Introduction             Beccy Watson, Doug Risner, and Sukina Khan   Part I   Education | Schooling Masculinity in Dance Education and Training         2    Understanding the Community College Male Dance Experience             Valerie Alpert         3    Generalist Elementary Male Teachers Advocating for Dance and Male Dancers             Peter Cook         4    Listening to Why Boys (Don’t) Dance: Creating Inclusive Dance Experiences for Boys             Helen Keane         5    Boys and Men Negotiating Dance, Masculinity, and Sexuality             Andria Christofidou   Part II  Culture | Gendering Dance Participation, Performance, and Pedagogy         6    Parental Perspectives on Their Sons’ Motivations to Dance             Lucie Clements and Helen Clegg         7    Masculinities and Performativities in Native American Dance             Robin Prichard         8    Dancing Between Queer Failure and Participatory Pedagogy             Hamish McIntosh and Ralph Buck         9    How Do Dance Organizations Market Dancing to Boys and Men?             Craig Owen and Vicki Harman         10 Fear, Coping, and Peer Support in Male Dance Students’ Reflections             Kai Lehikoinen and Isto Turpeinen   Part III  Identity | Moving Identities in Dancing Bodies         11 A Course on Movement Enhancement Skills for Men             Vincent Thomas         12 Black Bodies Dancing Defiance: Deez Nuts!             C. Kemal Nance         13 Pink Feathers: The Ballet Closet and Three Gay Remakes of Swan Lake             Joseph Mercier                                                          14 Hypermasculinity Makes the Queer Boy Faint             Anthony Alterio         15 Dancing a Love/Hate Relationship: A Case Study on Lingering Aspirations             Doug Risner and Hannah Andersen   Afterword       Jennifer McNamara   Index    

Reviews

“Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance is a compelling look into the lives of male dancers and the challenges they face throughout their training and careers. This book is an essential choice for any dance educator. … Although I am a dance professional and can apply this information directly to my practice, I would also highly recommend this book to anyone who has a dancing boy in their life.” (Christine Mazeppa, Journal of Dance Education, Vol. 23 (4), 2023)

Author Information

Doug Risner is Professor of Dance and Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Wayne State University, and conducts research on the sociology of dance education, gender in dance, and humanizing dance pedagogies. His books include Stigma & Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance (2009); Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts (2014); Dance & Gender: An Evidence-Based Approach (2017 ); and Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education (2020) which in 2021 received the Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education and the NDEO | Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award. Beccy Watson is Reader in the Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research focuses on feminist/critical epistemologies, social inequalities and intersections across leisure, sport and dance contexts. She is a co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Recreation (2018). 

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