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Gotman, Kélina

Choreomania : dance and disorder / Kelina Gotman - New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2018 - xvi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Oxford studies in dance theory. .

Part I: Excavating dance in the archive --
Obscuritas antiquitatis: institutions, affiliations, marginalia --
Madness after Foucault: medieval bacchanals --
Translatio: St. Vitus's Dance, demonism, and the early modern --
The Convulsionaries: antics on the French Revolutionary stage --
Mobiles, mobs, and monads: nineteenth-century crowd forms --
Médecine rétrospective: hysteria's archival drag --
Part II: Colonial and postcolonial stages: scenes of ferment in the field --
'Sicily Implies Asia and Africa': tarantellas and comparative method --
Ecstasy-belonging in Madagascar and Brazil --
Ghost dancing: excess, waste, and the American West --
'The Gift of Seeing Resemblances': cargo cults in the antipodes --
Monstrous grace: blackness and the new dance 'Crazes' --
Coda: moving fields, modernity, and the Bacchic chorus.

In this book, author Kelina Gotman examines choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of the choreomania concept as it moved across scientific and social scientific disciplines.

ISBN: 9780190840426

Publisher. No.: Amazon India Brijwasi Book Distributors :29/06/19

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arts
Sports, games & entertainment
Stage presentations
Choreography -- Social aspects.
Choreography -- History.
Dance -- Philosophy.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
PERFORMING ARTS--Arts

Dewey Class. No.: 792.82 GOT