Musical/choreographic discourse : method, music theory, and meaning / Stephanie Jordan -- Visible secrets : style analysis and dance literacy / Marcia B. Siegel -- Five theses on Laughter after all / Mark Franko -- Do you want to join the dance? : postmodernism/poststructuralism, the body, and dance / Helen Thomas -- Re/moving boundaries : from dance history to cultural studies / Amy Koritz -- Simmering passivity : the black male body in concert dance / Thomas DeFrantz -- Being danced again : Meredith Monk, reclaiming the girlchild / Leslie Satin -- "Styles of the flesh" : gender in the dances of Mark Morris / Gay Morris -- Uncanny women and anxious masters : reading Coppélia against Freud / Gwen Bergner and Nicole Plett -- American document and American minstrelsy / Susan Manning -- The culture of nobility/the nobility of self-cultivation / Judy Burns -- Jazz modernism / Constance Valis Hill -- Observing the evidence fail : difference arising from objectification in cross-cultural studies of dance / Sally Ann Ness -- Cross-cultural differences in the interpretation of Merce Cunningham's choreography / Miwa Nagura -- Dance discourses : rethinking the history of the "oriental dance" / Joan L. Erdman -- Balkan tradition, American alternative : dance, community, and the people of the pines / June Adler Vail -- High critics/low arts / Carol Martin.
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This book explores the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, and provides insights into ways in which dance contributes to and creates culture.