Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives

Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives
ISBN-10
1108755712
ISBN-13
9781108755719
Category
Music
Language
English
Published
2020-08-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Davinia Caddy, Maribeth Clark

Description

Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest, there is a need for thorough-going critical examination of the ways in which musicologists might engage with dance, thinking not only about specific repertoires or genres, but about fundamental commonalities between the two, including embodiment, agency, subjectivity and consciousness. This volume begins to fill this gap. Ten chapters illustrate a range of conceptual, historical and interpretive approaches that advance the interdisciplinary study of music and dance. This methodological eclecticism is a defining feature, integrating insights from critical theory, cultural studies, the visual arts, phenomenology, cultural anthropology and literary criticism into the study of music and dance.

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