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Author:   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: 16.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.588kg
ISBN:  

9780190933975

ISBN 10:   0190933976
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 March 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 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 Index

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What 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 *

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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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