Dancing revolution [electronic resource] : bodies, space, and sound in American cultural history / Christopher J. Smith.

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"Smith's project reconfigures the understanding of public space as a site for symbolic contestation of social and political control by investigating historical moments of participatory vernacular dance. Smith focuses extensively on public venues, such as the street, dance hall, and theater, in order...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019.
Series:Music in American life
Subjects:
Dance > United States > History.
Dance > Social aspects > United States > History.
Popular culture > United States > History.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2019 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2019 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : "Callin' out, around the world..."
  • Sacred bodies in the great awakenings
  • A tale of two cities I : akimbo bodies and the English Caribbean
  • Spaces, whistles, tags, and drums : irruptive noise
  • A tale of two cities II : festival and spectacle in the French Caribbean
  • Utopian movements and oments : shakers and ghost dancers
  • Blackface transformations I : modernism, primitivism, and race
  • Blackface transformations II : voyeurism, identity, and double-consciousness
  • Body and spirit in a post-1960s world : hippies, queens, punks, and B-boys
  • Street dance and the dream of fFreedom : "It's an invitation across the nation..."