Choreomusicology

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology: Dialogues in Music and Dance is a distinguished collection of essays by leading scholars presenting research that redefines and rethinks the question of what dance and music are, together and apart, and which promotes new ideas and voices in the discipline. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology

Edited by Samuel N Dorf and Helen Julia Minors

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Helen Julia Minors and Samuel Dorf

Part I: Theories, Ideas

"The eye and the ear in collaboration... sound and movement in translation"

Helen Julia Minors

"Is a Still Dance Still a Dance? Cage's 4'33" and Taylor's Duet"

Renee Conroy

"Virtual Powers: Ballet and Susanne Langer Reconsidered"

Carlo Caballero

"Aesthetics of Sweat in African Dance"

Gavin Steingo and Lyndsey Copeland

"Making Water Great Again: The Bellagio Water Fountain and Neoliberal Spectacle"

Sumanth Gopinath and Elizabeth Hartman

Part II: Choreomusicology Past and Present

"Is Medieval Choreomusicology Possible?"

Mary Channen Caldwell

"'Terpsichore Unchained': Renaissance Dance and the English Court Masque,
Reimagined for the Twentieth Century"

Wendy Heller

"Recovering Phryné: Reconstructing Belle-Époque Ballet Through Archival Sources"

Sarah Gutsche-Miller

"Stepanov Dance Notation, Western Music Notation, and the Graphic Method"

Sophie Benn

"Capturing Music, Capturing Dance: Ted Shawn's 'Music Films'"

Mary Simonson

"On the Boloshoi, and on Kirill Serebrennikov's Nureyev"

Simon Morrison

"Cakewalking the Black Atlantic: Wagner and Ragtime in Imperial Germany"

Chantal Frankenbach

"'This Thing Might Turn into Something': The Choreomusical Layers of
Hellzapoppin'"

Rachel Short and Christi Jay Wells

"Resilience, Mobility, and Transformative Power in the Afro-Cuban Muelleo"

Sarah Town

"The National Tea Dance: The Forging of a Unified Gay Musical Identity"

Louis Niebur

Bibliography

Index 

Autoreninfo

Samuel N. Dorf is Alumni Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Music at the University of Dayton, US.

Helen Julia Minors is Professor and Head of the School of the Arts at York St John University, UK.