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Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement
Andrew Hewitt
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Description for Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement
Paperback. Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPN; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Through the concept of “social choreography” Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that ideology needs to be understood as something embodied and practiced, not just as an abstract form of consciousness. Linking dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement—such as walking, stumbling, and laughter—to historical ideals of social order, he provides a powerful exposition of Marxist debates about the relation of ideology and aesthetics.
Through the concept of “social choreography” Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that ideology needs to be understood as something embodied and practiced, not just as an abstract form of consciousness. Linking dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement—such as walking, stumbling, and laughter—to historical ideals of social order, he provides a powerful exposition of Marxist debates about the relation of ideology and aesthetics.
Hewitt focuses on the period between the ... Read more
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Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822335146
SKU
V9780822335146
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About Andrew Hewitt
Andrew Hewitt is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, and the Modernist Imaginary and Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde.
Reviews for Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement
“Social Choreography is an intelligent, precisely argued new take on longstanding issues regarding the relationship of ideologies and aesthetics, one which invigorates those debates through its encounter with the visual and kinesthetic materiality of dance forms.”—Jane Desmond, editor of Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance “A work of stunning originality and relentless intelligence, Social Choreography restores the performing ... Read more