Dancing on the Canon: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Also by......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: Let’s Dance!......Page 14
Part I Understanding Value......Page 22
1 Dancing on the Canon......Page 24
Value and the academy......Page 25
Acts of evaluation......Page 27
Absolutism versus relativism......Page 28
Re- evaluating the canon......Page 31
Popular dance and cultural studies......Page 34
Cultural studies and value......Page 36
The return to value in popular dance......Page 40
2 The Value(s) of Cultural Studies......Page 42
The social and institutional context......Page 43
Culture as a site of contestation......Page 45
Theories, methods and their positions of value......Page 47
Dancing in youth (sub)cultures and club cultures......Page 50
Investing in popular dance......Page 56
Positioning the popular historically......Page 58
Popular, social and vernacular dance......Page 60
Classifying culture as folk, art and pop......Page 63
Mass culture and the manipulationist debate......Page 67
The culture industry versus the people......Page 70
Towards a working definition of popular dance......Page 75
The emergence of popular dance studies......Page 79
Naming popular dance......Page 80
Research clusters and questions......Page 82
Popular methodologies......Page 85
Dance in production, circulation and reception......Page 88
Embodying popular dance......Page 93
5 Embodiments of Value......Page 97
Economic values......Page 98
Class values......Page 101
The value of art......Page 103
Regimes of value......Page 106
The value of play......Page 108
The visibility of value......Page 109
Embodying value in popular dance......Page 111
Introduction......Page 114
6 ‘Naughty but Nice’: Re- Articulations of Value in Neo- Burlesque Striptease......Page 118
The rise and fall of tease......Page 122
Exercising creative autonomy......Page 124
The politics of inclusion......Page 126
Discourses of empowerment......Page 130
A tease of seduction......Page 132
The tease of a knowing wink......Page 137
Teasing out values of distinction......Page 147
7 Pogoing, Headbanging and Skanking: Economies of Value in Dancing Subcultures......Page 149
Subcultures, fans and academics......Page 151
Pogoing, headbanging and skanking......Page 154
Aesthetic evaluations of music and dance......Page 158
An expression of community values......Page 165
Codes of behaviour on the dance floor......Page 170
Economic exchange and the consumption of dance......Page 175
Dancing paradoxical values......Page 180
8 ‘There’s a Land That I’ve Heard About’: Envisioning Value at Sunday Serenade......Page 183
Longing for the homeland......Page 185
Disrupting identity through music and dance......Page 190
The myth of multiculturalism......Page 197
Values of belonging......Page 198
The politics of diasporic identity......Page 204
Visible dancing values at Sunday Serenade......Page 210
Conclusion: The Value of Popular Dance......Page 213
Notes......Page 219
Bibliography......Page 231
Index......Page 246