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Choreomania : dance and disorder / Kélina Gotman
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TextSeries: Oxford studies in dance theoryPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]Description: xvi, 361 pàgines : il·lustracions; 26 cmContent type: - text
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- 9780190840426
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Summary: "In this book, author Kelina Gotman examines choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of choreomania, a fantastical concept across scientific disciplines used to designate the spontaneous and uncontrolled movements of crowds." -- Editor
Conté: Foreword -- Preface - Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Choreomania, Another Orientalism -- Part I: Excavating Dance in the Archives -- 1. Obscuritas Antiquitatis: Institutions, Affiliations, Marginalia -- 2. Madness after Foucault: Medieval Bacchanals -- 3. Translatio: St. Vitus's Dance, Demonism and the Early Modern -- 4. The Convulsionaries: Antics on the French Revolutionary Stage -- 5. Mobiles, Mobs and Monads: Nineteenth-Century Crowd Forms -- 6. Medecine Retrospective: Hysteria's Archival Drag Part II: Colonial and Postcolonial Stages: Scenes of Ferment in the Field -- 7. "Sicily Implies Asia and Africa": Tarantellas and Comparative Method -- 8. Ecstasy-belonging in Madagascar and Brazil -- 9. Ghost Dancing: Excess, Waste and the American West -- 10. "The Gift of Seeing Resemblances": Cargo Cults in the Antipodes -- 11. Monstrous Grace: Blackness and the New Dance "Crazes" -- 12. Coda: Moving Fields, Modernity and the Bacchic Chorus
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llibre | Biblioteca Barcelona | Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés | 793.9 GOT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 1900080993 |
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"In this book, author Kelina Gotman examines choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of choreomania, a fantastical concept across scientific disciplines used to designate the spontaneous and uncontrolled movements of crowds." -- Editor
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