Dance Floor Democracy
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Dance Floor Democracy
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Author : Sherrie Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-23
Dance Floor Democracy written by Sherrie Tucker and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with History categories.
Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening night, when the crowds were so thick that Bette Davis had to enter through the bathroom window to give her welcome speech, the storied dance floor where movie stars danced with soldiers has been the subject of much U.S. nostalgia about the "Greatest Generation." Drawing from oral histories with civilian volunteers and military guests who danced at the wartime nightclub, Sherrie Tucker explores how jitterbugging swing culture has come to represent the war in U.S. national memory. Yet her interviewees' varied experiences and recollections belie the possibility of any singular historical narrative. Some recall racism, sexism, and inequality on the nightclub's dance floor and in Los Angeles neighborhoods, dynamics at odds with the U.S. democratic, egalitarian ideals associated with the Hollywood Canteen and the "Good War" in popular culture narratives. For Tucker, swing dancing's torque—bodies sharing weight, velocity, and turning power without guaranteed outcomes—is an apt metaphor for the jostling narratives, different perspectives, unsteady memories, and quotidian acts that comprise social history.
Dance And Democracy
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Dance And Democracy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Life And Death On The New York Dance Floor 1980 1983
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Author : Tim Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-15
Life And Death On The New York Dance Floor 1980 1983 written by Tim Lawrence and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with Music categories.
As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.
Dance Music
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Author : Tami Gadir
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-08-10
Dance Music written by Tami Gadir and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-10 with Music categories.
For some people, at some times, in some places, on some drugs, dance music can be a gateway to transformative, even transcendent experiences. With the help of skilled DJs, dancers can reach euphoric states, discard their egos, and feel social barriers dissolve. Dance floors can be sites of openness, subversion, and even small-scale acts of political resistance. At a minimum, dance music lightens the burdens of contemporary life. At its best, dance music offers glimpses of better worlds. Yet even where dance music communities are built on principles of resistance and liberation, they nevertheless share the grittier realities of the rest of the world. Dance Music makes the case that dance music is ordinary and that something exceeding the social and spatiotemporal bounds of the dance floor is required for the transformative promise of dance music to be realized.
Democracy S Body
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Author : Sally Banes
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1993
Democracy S Body written by Sally Banes and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Performing Arts categories.
Judson Dance Theater involved such collaborators as Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Carolee Schneemann, Trisha Brown, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, et al.
Democracy The Painted Whore An Extremist Explains War Drugs Guns God Gold And Santa Claus
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Democracy The Painted Whore An Extremist Explains War Drugs Guns God Gold And Santa Claus written by and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Embodied Nostalgia
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Author : Phoebe Rumsey
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-11
Embodied Nostalgia written by Phoebe Rumsey and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre. The case studies in this volume are all Broadway musicals set during the Jazz Age (1910-1950), however, performed and produced after that time, creating a spectrum of nostalgic impulses that are interrogated for social and political resonance and meaning. All reflect the fractures or changes in the social dance when brought to the stage and expose the complexities of the embodied nostalgia – broadly interpreted as the physicalizing of community memories, longings, and historical meaning – the dances carry with them. Particular attention is focused on the Black ownership of the social dances and the subsequent appropriation, cultural theft, and forgotten legacies. By approaching musical theatre through this lens of social dance––always already deeply connected to notions of class and race––and the politics of choreography therein, a unique and necessary method to describing, discussing, and critically evaluating the body in motion in musical theatre is put forth.
Hip Hop Dance
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Author : Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-01-09
Hip Hop Dance written by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-09 with Performing Arts categories.
This guide provides an overview of the history of hip hop culture and an exploration of its dance style, appropriate both for student research projects and general interest reading. Rapping. Breakdancing. MCing. DJing. Beatboxing. Graffiti art. These are just some of the most well-known artistic expressions spawned from hip hop culture, which has grown from being an isolated inner-city subculture in the 1970s to being a truly international and mainstream culture that has taken root in countries as diverse as Japan, France, Israel, Poland, Brazil, South Korea, and England. This insightful book provides not only an overview of hip hop's distinctive dance style and steps, but also a historic overview of hip hop's roots as an urban expression of being left out of the mainstream pop culture, clarifying the social context of hip hop culture before it became a widespread suburban phenomenon. Hip Hop Dance documents all the forms of street music that led to one of the most groundbreaking, expressive, and influential dance styles ever created.
Spaces Of Democracy
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Author : Clive Barnett
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2004-08-03
Spaces Of Democracy written by Clive Barnett and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-03 with Science categories.
′This volume successfully exposes the "ghostly presence" of democracy in the field of geography and shows the value of thinking about democracy geographically. It is a major contribution to serious examination of a normative political issue from a geographical perspective. This is welcome above all because geography is a field whose cultural and economic branches, though often claiming the appellation "critical", are currently dominated by unexamined radical political fantasies′ - John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles In an historically unprecedented way, democracy is now increasingly seen as a universal model of legitimate rule.This work addresses the key question: How can democracy be understood in theory and in practise? In three thematically organised sections, Spaces of Democracy uses a critical geographical imagination (informed by thinking on space, place, and scale) to interrogate the latest work in democratic theory. Key ideas and concepts discussed include globalization and transnationalism; representation; citizenship; liberalism; the city and public space; and the media. This volume comprises commissioned work by leading academics investigating democracy. Historical and comparative, animated by wider debates on globalization, it will facilitate the critical discussion of core questions on citizenship, the state, and democracy. Spaces of Democracy is essential reading for students of human geography, political science/international relations, and political sociology.
For The Love Of Long Shots A Memoir On Democracy
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Author : Shawn Casey O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Pumpkin Seed Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-30
For The Love Of Long Shots A Memoir On Democracy written by Shawn Casey O'Brien and has been published by Pumpkin Seed Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
What would happen if 40 million disabled citizens organized their vote and took power in America? Shawn Casey O'Brien's literary memoir For The Love Of Long Shots looks at the off-beat, humane possibilities as a rag tag group of disabled rebels lay the groundwork for just such a bloodless, democratic revolution. From motivating millions to register and vote, to ending voter suppression and wholeheartedly encouraging the electorate to "lie to the polls" and then simply vote their conscience, For The Love Of Long Shots takes an irreverent, if not realistic, look at what ails American democracy today and how best to save it-one disabled vote at a time.