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Subject(s)

• Dance—Social aspects [Browse]
• Dance—Competitions [Browse]

Editor

• Dodds, Sherril, 1967- [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Competition culture: winning and losing at dance / Sherril Dodds
• Part I. Economic and social currencies of competition. Taking the cake: Black dance, competition, and value / Nadine George-Graves ; You've got to sell it! Performing on the dance competition stage / Karen Schupp ; Competitive capers: gender, gentility, and dancing in early modern England / Emily Winerock ; Endangered strangers: tracking competition in US federal dance funding / Sarah Wilbur ; Marking your territory: the struggle to work in flamenco / Kathy Milazzo
• Part II. Re-choreographing and re-presentation for the competition frame. Reappropriating choreographies of authenticity in Mexico: competitions and the Dance of the Old Men / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco ; Above and beyond the battle: virtuosity and collectivity within televised street dance crew competitions / Laura Robinson ; Shifting dynamics: Sean Nós dancing, vernacular expression, and the competitive arena of the Oireachtas / Catherine E. Foley ; Visible rhythms: competition in English tap practice / Sally Crawford-Shepherd
• Part III. Winning, participation, and the negotiation of meaning. The International Dancehall Queen Competition: a discursive space for competing images of femininity / Celena Monteiro ; Congratulations, we wish you success: competition and community participation in Romanian dance festivals / Liz Mellish ; Non-competitive body states: corporeal freedom and innovation in contemporary dance / Nalina Wait and Erin Brannigan ; Reclaiming competitive tango: the rise of Argentina's Campeonato Mundial / Juliet McMains ; Dance-off, or A battle for the future: dance reality shows in India / Pallabi Chakravorty
• Part IV. Judging, spectatorship, and the values of movement. Miss Exotic World: judging the neo-burlesque movement / Kaitlyn Regehr ; Rapper dance adjudication: aesthetics, discourse, and decision-making / Jeremy Carter-Gordon ; Dismantling the genre: reality dance competitions and layers of affective intensification / Elena Benthaus ; Why are breaking battles judged? The rise of international competitions / Mary Fogarty ; Not another Don Quixote! Negotiating China's position on the international ballet stage / Rowan McLelland
• Part V. Losing, failing, and auto-critique. Dancing with the Asian American stars: Margaret Cho and the failure to win / Yutian Wong ; Loss of face: intimidation, derision, and failure in the hip-hop battle / Sherril Dodds ; Making play work: competition, spectacle, and intersubjectivity in hybrid martial arts / Janet O'Shea ; You can't outdo Black people: Soul Train, queer witnessing, and pleasurable competition / Melissa Blanco Borelli
• Part VI. Hidden agendas and unspoken rules. Freedom to compete: neoliberal contradictions in Gaga intensives / Meghan Quinlan ; "We'll rumble 'em right": aggression and play in the dance-offs of West Side Story / Ying Zhu and Daniel Belgrad ; Dancing like a man: competition and gender in the New Orleans Second Line / Rachel Carrico ; Man and money ready: challenge dancing in antebellum America / April F. Masten
• Afterword: Who is competing? / Susan Leigh Foster.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of dance and competition
• Dance and competition

ISBN

• 9780190639082 ((cloth))
• 0190639083 ((cloth))

LCCN

2018005395

OCLC

1032292243

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