From ballroom to dancesport : aesthetics, athletics, and body culture /
Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-
From ballroom to dancesport : aesthetics, athletics, and body culture / Caroline Joan S. Picart. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006. - 1 online resource (x, 167 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations SUNY series in communication studies . - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations. SUNY series in communication studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index.
contested landscape of ballroom dance : culture, gender, race, class, and nationality in performance -- Dancing through different worlds : an autoethnography of the interactive body and virtual emotions in ballroom dance -- Ballroom dance and the movies -- Paving the road to the Olympics : staging and financing the Olympic dream -- Packaging fantasy and morality -- Quo Vadis? Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasing international anxiety over how and whether to transform ballroom into an Olympic sport. Writing as a participant-critic, Picart suggests that both are crucial sites where bodies are packaged as racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and classed objects. In addition, Picart argues, as the choreography, costuming, and genre of ballroom and DanceSport continue to evolve, these theatrical productions are aestheticized and constructed to encourage commercial appeal, using the narrative frame of the competitive melodrama to heighten audience interest."--Jacket.
1423755774 (electronic bk.) 9781423755777 (electronic bk.) 9780791482414 0791482413 9780791466308 (print) 0791466302 (print) 9780791466292 (print) 0791466299 (print)
9780791466308
Ballroom dancing--Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Popular Culture
Danses de société--Aspect social.
Culture populaire.
popular culture.
PERFORMING ARTS--Dance--General.
Ballroom dancing--Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
GV1746 / .P53 2006eb
793.38
From ballroom to dancesport : aesthetics, athletics, and body culture / Caroline Joan S. Picart. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006. - 1 online resource (x, 167 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations SUNY series in communication studies . - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations. SUNY series in communication studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index.
contested landscape of ballroom dance : culture, gender, race, class, and nationality in performance -- Dancing through different worlds : an autoethnography of the interactive body and virtual emotions in ballroom dance -- Ballroom dance and the movies -- Paving the road to the Olympics : staging and financing the Olympic dream -- Packaging fantasy and morality -- Quo Vadis? Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasing international anxiety over how and whether to transform ballroom into an Olympic sport. Writing as a participant-critic, Picart suggests that both are crucial sites where bodies are packaged as racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and classed objects. In addition, Picart argues, as the choreography, costuming, and genre of ballroom and DanceSport continue to evolve, these theatrical productions are aestheticized and constructed to encourage commercial appeal, using the narrative frame of the competitive melodrama to heighten audience interest."--Jacket.
1423755774 (electronic bk.) 9781423755777 (electronic bk.) 9780791482414 0791482413 9780791466308 (print) 0791466302 (print) 9780791466292 (print) 0791466299 (print)
9780791466308
Ballroom dancing--Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Popular Culture
Danses de société--Aspect social.
Culture populaire.
popular culture.
PERFORMING ARTS--Dance--General.
Ballroom dancing--Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
GV1746 / .P53 2006eb
793.38