From ballroom to dancesport : aesthetics, athletics, and body culture / / Caroline Joan S. Picart
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| Autore: |
Picart Caroline Joan <1966->
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| Titolo: |
From ballroom to dancesport : aesthetics, athletics, and body culture / / Caroline Joan S. Picart
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (179 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 793.38 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ballroom dancing - Social aspects |
| Popular culture | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- The Contested Landscape of Ballroom Dance -- Dancing through Different Worlds -- Ballroom Dance and the Movies -- Paving the Road to the Olympics -- Packaging Fantasy and Morality -- Quo Vadis? -- Ballroom-Dance-Related Organizations -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasing international anxiety over how and whether to transform ballroom into an Olympic sport. Writing as a participant-critic, Picart suggests that both are crucial sites where bodies are packaged as racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and classed objects. In addition, Picart argues, as the choreography, costuming, and genre of ballroom and DanceSport continue to evolve, these theatrical productions are aestheticized and constructed to encourage commercial appeal, using the narrative frame of the competitive melodrama to heighten audience interest. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From ballroom to dancesport |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8241-3 |
| 1-4237-5577-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810169403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
SUNY series in communication studies.