From Ballroom to Dancesport : Aesthetics, Athletics, and Body Culture
| Author/creator |
Picart, Caroline Joan 1966- Author |
| Other author/creator | Messner, Michael A. Editor |
| Other author/creator | Cahn, Dudley D. Editor |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Suny Press [Imprint] Albany : State University of New York Press |
| Description | 167 p. ill 09.320 x 06.320 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
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| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | SUNY Series in Communication Studies |
| Summary | Annotation 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. Book jacket. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005001027 |
| ISBN | 9780791466292 |
| ISBN | 0791466299 (Trade Cloth) On Demand |
| Standard identifier# | 9780791466292 |
| Stock number | 00025125 |
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