{"product_id":"choreographing-history-paperback-softback-9780253209351","title":"Choreographing History (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253209351","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChoreographing History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Leigh Foster (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253209351\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 May 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 31 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body.\" —Dance Research Journal\u003cbr\u003e \"Choreographing History . . . assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches . . . [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves.\" —Parachute\u003cbr\u003e \"This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time.\" —Dance Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e \". . . [an] important step. . . in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past.\" —Theatre Journal\u003cbr\u003e Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  An Introduction to Moving Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Choreographing History—Susan Leigh Foster\u003cbr\u003e Resurrecting Historical Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Universal Language of Motion: Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Muscle Man—Stephen Greenblatt\u003cbr\u003e Interval Training—John MacAloon\u003cbr\u003e Bodily Interventions into Academic Disciplines\u003cbr\u003e Tacit Knowledge, Courtliness, and the Scientist's Body—Mario Biagioli\u003cbr\u003e Music, the Pythagoreans, and the Body—Susan McClary\u003cbr\u003e Agency and History: The Demands of Dance Ethnography—Randy Martin\u003cbr\u003e Moving Theory Across Bodies of Practice\u003cbr\u003e Credit, Novels, Masturbation—Thomas W. Laqueur\u003cbr\u003e Advertising Every Body: Images from the Japanese Modern Years—Miriam Silverberg\u003cbr\u003e Bodies of Doctrine: Headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras—Joseph Roach\u003cbr\u003e Historians as Bodies in Motion\u003cbr\u003e Modern Dance in the Third Reich: Six Positions and a Coda—Susan A. Manning\u003cbr\u003e The Body's Endeavors as Cultural Practices—Cynthia J. Novak\u003cbr\u003e Different Personas: A History of One's Own?—Lena Hammergren\u003cbr\u003e Embodying Theory\u003cbr\u003e Meditations on the Patriarchal Pythagorean Pratfall and the Lesbian Siamesia Two-Step—Sue-Ellen Case\u003cbr\u003e Thirteen Ways of Looking at Choreographing Writing—Peggy Phelan\u003cbr\u003e Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists—Sharon Traweek\u003cbr\u003e Bodies and Their Plots—Hayden White\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574220714264,"sku":"9780253209351","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/choreographing-history-paperback-softback-9780253209351","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}