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OverviewBecause 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Leigh Foster (Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California - Los Angeles)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.446kg ISBN: 9780190933982ISBN 10: 0190933984 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 15 March 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 - Dance's Resource-fullness Dance as Bringing People into Relation Dance as Energizing Dance as Adapting Chapter 2 - Commodifying and Giving Part A - Dance as Commodity Standardizing, Spectacularizing, and Promoting Bringing People into Relation as Constructing Interactivity Energizing as Targeting Vitality Adapting as Developing Transportability Part Z - Dance as Gift Giving, Receiving, and Reciprocating Bringing People into Relation as Affirming Connectivity Energizing as Embracing Irrepressibility Adapting as Cultivating Locality Chapter 3 - The Social Life of Dances The Global Reach of Hip Hop Learning to Dance in the Privately Owned Studio On the Powwow Circuit Chapter 4 - Why Dance? Why Sell? Why Give? Who is Dancing? Philosophies of Giving - Deborah Hay, William Forsythe, Savion Glover IndexReviewsWhat is dance, or dancing, worth? In magisterial analyses, Foster explores how dance operates as labor and the unlikely, but inevitable, material of global capital and exchange. In Valuing Dance, we learn of the exquisite and complex action of sharing gesture, of creating gift through our very movements, and of the diverse and divergent ways dancers pass physically through systems of belief. Foster takes on the challenging questions of gestural equivalencies with capacious determination and unfailing insight. For anyone who has ever wondered, 'Why Dance?' --Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University and Director, SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture, Technology 'Actions create value,' Susan Leigh Foster argues in her bold and brilliant Valuing Dance. But what kind of value, labor, and systems of exchange give dance its value? As she moves us through the economies of gift and commodity exchange, Foster advocates for choreographies that offer more just and sustainable futures. This work is a necessary intervention for scholars across a broad range of disciplines. --Diana Taylor, University Professor, New York University 'Actions create value,' Susan Leigh Foster argues in her bold and brilliant Valuing Dance. But what kind of value, labor, and systems of exchange give dance its value? As she moves us through the economies of gift and commodity exchange, Foster advocates for choreographies that offer more just and sustainable futures. This work is a necessary intervention for scholars across a broad range of disciplines. * Diana Taylor, University Professor, New York University * Author InformationSusan 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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