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Dance in the city / edited by Helen Thomas.
| Other author | Thomas, Helen, 1947- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. |
| Description | xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Dancing around meaning (and the meaning around dance) / Andrew Ward -- Exer(or)cising power : Black bodies in the Black public sphere / Paul Gilroy -- 'Keep your great city Paris!' : The lament of the empress and other women / Valerie A. Briginshaw -- The beat goes on : trance, dance and tribalism in rave culture / Georgiana Gore -- Dirt, noise, traffic : contemporary Indian dance in the Western city ; modernity, ethnicity and hybridity / Sanjoy Roy -- Ballroom blitz / Helen Thomas and Nicola Miller -- Cyborgs, nomads and the raving feminine / Maria Pinti -- Madame Smudge, some fossils, and other missing links : unearthing the ballet class / Lesley-Anne Sayers -- Safe sets : women, dance and 'communitas' / Barbara O'Connor -- Nazism and the call of the jitterbug / Les Back -- Aerobic dance and the city : individual and social space / Stacey Prickett -- Dance and erotica : the construction of the female stripper / Sherril Dodds -- Let's face the music-and dance? : Torvill and Dean : 'Champagne on ice' / Stephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97001717 |
| ISBN | 0312174535 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0312174543 (pbk.) |