{"product_id":"social-choreography-ideology-as-performance-in-dance-and-everyday-movement-paperback-softback-9780822335146","title":"Social Choreography; Ideology As Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822335146","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSocial Choreography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIdeology As Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew Hewitt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822335146\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 April 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSocial Choreography\u003c\/i\u003e is an intelligent, precisely argued new take on longstanding issues regarding the relationship of ideologies and aesthetics, one which invigorates those debates through its encounter with the visual and kinesthetic materiality of dance forms.”-Jane Desmond, editor of \u003ci\u003eMeaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A work of stunning originality and relentless intelligence, \u003ci\u003eSocial Choreography\u003c\/i\u003e restores the performing body to its central place in the narrative of aesthetic modernism and its vexed relationship to politics. Taking his examples from the history of dance, popular as well as elite, and the discourses surrounding it in Europe and America, Andrew Hewitt conducts a master class in non-reductive ideology critique.”-Martin Jay, author of \u003ci\u003eSongs of Experience: Modern European and American Variations on a Universal Theme\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Innovative and groundbreaking, \u003ci\u003eSocial Choreography\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to intellectual history and in particular to the history of social theory. It is also a very important contribution to aesthetics where the reemergence of dance significantly reorders the hierarchy of the arts and of the tradition of theorizing the arts.”-Fredric Jameson, Duke University\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThrough the concept of “social choreography” Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that ideology needs to be understood as something embodied and practiced, not just as an abstract form of consciousness. Linking dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement-such as walking, stumbling, and laughter-to historical ideals of social order, he provides a powerful exposition of Marxist debates about the relation of ideology and aesthetics.\u003cp\u003eHewitt focuses on the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the early twentieth and considers dancers and social theorists in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States. Analyzing the arguments of writers including Friedrich Schiller, Theodor Adorno, Hans Brandenburg, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer, he reveals in their thinking about the movement of bodies a shift from an understanding of play as the condition of human freedom to one prioritizing labor as either the realization or alienation of embodied human potential. Whether considering understandings of the Charleston, Isadora Duncan, Nijinsky, or the famous British chorus line the Tiller Girls, Hewitt foregrounds gender as he uses dance and everyday movement to rethink the relationship of aesthetics and social order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Social Choreography and the Aesthetic Continuum 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Body of Marsyas: Aesthetic Socialism and the Physiology of the Sublime 37\u003cbr\u003e 2. Stumbling and Legibility: Gesture and the Dialectic of Tact 78\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"\u003cbr\u003eAmerica Makes Me Sick!\"\u003cbr\u003e: Nationalism, Race, Gender, and Hysteria 117\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Scandalous Male Icon: Nijinsky and the Queering of Symbolist Aesthetics 156\u003cbr\u003e 5. From Women to Girl: Mass Culture and Gender Panic 177\u003cbr\u003e Notes 213\u003cbr\u003e Index 249\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670805344536,"sku":"9780822335146","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/social-choreography-ideology-as-performance-in-dance-and-everyday-movement-paperback-softback-9780822335146","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}