Embodied Nostalgia
Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 39.99
-
20 238 Ft (19 275 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 2 024 Ft off)
- Discounted price 18 215 Ft (17 348 Ft + 5% VAT)
20 238 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 18 December 2024
- ISBN 9780367757205
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 Illustrations, black & white; 16 Halftones, black & white 672
Categories
Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Ragtime ? The Heartbeat of the Modern Era?
Chapter 1: "Juke joints supposed to be in the woods": Nostalgia for privacy and place in The Color Purple
Chapter 2: "This was a music that was theirs": Ragtime and the Breakdown of Collective Nostalgia
Chapter 3: "Till Georgie Took ?Em Away": Counter Nostalgia and Cultural Theft in Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed
Part 2: The Charleston ? Lively and Liberated
Chapter 4: "Men say it?s criminal what women will do": Thoroughly Modern Millie and Nostalgia for the "New Woman"
Chapter 5: "I need to do the Black Bottom!": Demystifying Nostalgia in The Wild Party
Chapter 6: "I don?t want to show off no more": Parody and Nostalgia Go Toe to Toe in The Drowsy Chaperone
Part Three: Swing Dance ? Rally and Rebound
Chapter 7: "Good neighbors ? Good neighbors": Wonderful Town and Nostalgia for Lost Communities.
Chapter 8: When Nostalgia is Your Only Hope: Steel Pier and Dance Marathons
Chapter 9: "Get in the game": Destabilizing Nostalgia in the Crisis of Identity in Allegiance
Conclusion: "Just like it was before": The Promise Continues
Index
More
