Dance in US Popular Culture

Jennifer Atkins

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Routledge
21 July 2023

Theatre Studies; Dance; Popular culture; Media studies

This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in—and through—culture.

By drawing on material relevant to students, Dance in US Popular Culture successfully introduces students to critical thinking around the most personal of terrain: our bodies and our identities. The book asks readers to think about:

what embodied knowledge we carry with us and how we can understand history and society through that lens

what stereotypes and accompanying expectations are embedded in performance, related to gender and/or race, for instance

how such expectations are reinforced, negotiated, challenged, embraced, or rescripted by performers and audiences

how readers articulate their own sense of complex identity within the constantly shifting landscape of popular culture, how this shapes an active sense of their everyday lives, and how this can act as a springboard towards dismantling systems of oppression

Through readings, questions, movement analyses, and assignment prompts that take students from computer to nightclub and beyond, Dance in US Popular Culture readers develop their own cultural sense of dance and the moving body’s sociopolitical importance while also determining how dance is fundamentally applicable to their own identity.

This is the ideal textbook for high school and undergraduate students of dance and dance studies in BA and BfA courses, as well as those studying popular culture from interdisciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, theater and performance studies.

Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license.

Edited by: Jennifer Atkins
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 870g
ISBN: 9780367819729
ISBN 10: 0367819724
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 21 July 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer Atkins is an associate professor of dance at Florida State University.