Choreographing history

Foster, Susan Leigh. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0253324114 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0253209358 (pa : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
vi, 257 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-247) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Choreographing History / Susan Leigh Foster -- Toward a Universal Language of Motion: Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Muscle Man / Stephen Greenblatt -- Interval Training / John J. MacAloon -- Christian Conversion and the Challenge of Dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Tacit Knowledge, Courtliness, and the Scientist's Body / Mario Biagioli -- Music, the Pythagoreans, and the Body / Susan McClary -- Agency and History: The Demands of Dance Ethnography / Randy Martin -- Credit, Novels, Masturbation / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Advertising Every Body Images from the Japanese Modern Years / Miriam Silverberg -- Bodies of Doctrine: Headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras / Joseph Roach -- Modern Dance in the Third Reich: Six Positions and a Coda / Susan A. Manning -- Body's Endeavors as Cultural Practices / Cynthia J. Novack -- Different Personas: A History of One's Own? / Lena Hammergren -- Meditations on the Patriarchal Pythagorean Pratfall and the Lesbian Siamesian Two-Step / Sue-Ellen Case -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Choreographing Writing / Peggy Phelan -- Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists / Sharon Traweek -- Bodies and Their Plots / Hayden White.