Choreomusicology: Dialogues in Music and Dance is a distinguished collection of chapters 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.
Focusing on matters historical, critical, and conceptual, and defining dance-music interactions from the era of aristocratic court dance to the present, the book covers a wide range of topics, including dance and music performance practice, queer studies, colonialism and exoticism, disability studies, the “reparative” humanities, and film. The volume is organized into two sections: Part 1 examines theoretical and conceptual issues, including theories of embodiment, musicality, and dance aesthetics, with examples including contemporary ballet, the role of the conductor, and even fountains in Las Vegas. In Part 2, contributors consider choreomusicology as a historical discipline and tackle the problem of musical and choreographic reconstruction, from medieval dance to reimagining lost music in early experiment in dance film, as well as choreomusical analyses of twentieth-century works.
Capturing the breadth of studies and approaches that are encompassed in choreomusicology, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of dance and media studies, musicology, and ethnomusicology, as well as appealing to dancers, choreographers, musicians, and composers looking for new approaches to thinking about music and dance.
Edited by:
Samuel N. Dorf (University of Dayton USA),
Helen Julia Minors
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 850g
ISBN: 9780367567729
ISBN 10: 0367567725
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 07 May 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
The Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology Edited by Samuel N Dorf and Helen Julia Minors Table of Contents: Introduction Simon Morrison, 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
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.
