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Choreomania - Kelina Gotman

Choreomania

Dance and Disorder

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-084042-6 (ISBN)
CHF 79,90 inkl. MwSt
In this book, author Kélina Gotman examines choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of the choreomania concept as it moved across scientific and social scientific disciplines.
When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the disorder being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly movements of crowds, choreomania emerged in the nineteenth century at a time of heightened class conflict, nationalist policy, and colonial rule. In this book, author Kélina Gotman examines these choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of the choreomania concept as it moved across scientific and social scientific disciplines. Reading archives describing dramatic misformationsof bodies and body politicsshe shows how prejudices against expressivity unravel, in turn revealing widespread anxieties about demonstrative agitation. This history of the fitful body complements stories of nineteenth-century discipline and regimentation. As she notes, constraints on movement imply constraints on political power and agency. In each chapter, Gotman confronts the many ways choreomania works as an extension of discourses shaping colonialist orientalism, which alternately depict riotous bodies as dangerously infected others, and as curious bacchanalian remains. Through her research, Gotman also shows how beneath the radar of this colonial discourse, men and women gathered together to repossess on their terms the gestures of social revolt.

Kélina Gotman is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at King's College London. She is translator among others of Félix Guattari's The Anti-Oedipus Papers (2006) and collaborates widely on dance and theatre productions in Europe and North America.

CONTENTS

List of illustrations
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. Médecine Rétrospective: 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

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
Zusatzinfo 23 halftones
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 251 x 178 mm
Gewicht 672 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-084042-0 / 0190840420
ISBN-13 978-0-19-084042-6 / 9780190840426
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