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Choreomania : dance and disorder / Kélina Gotman

Author
Gotman, Kélina
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I EXCAVATING DANCE IN THE ARCHIVE -- 1.Obscuritas Antiquitatis: Institutions, Affiliations, Marginalia -- 2.Madness after Foucault: Medieval Bacchanals -- 3.Translatio: St. Vitus's Dance, Demonism, and the Early Modern -- 4.The Convulsionaries: Antics on the French Revolutionary Stage -- 5.Mobiles, Mobs, and Monads: Nineteenth-Century Crowd Forms -- 6.Medecine Retrospective: Hysteria's Archival Drag -- pt. II COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STAGES: SCENES OF FERMENT IN THE FIELD -- 7.`Sicily Implies Asia and Africa': Tarantellas and Comparative Method -- 8.Ecstasy-Belonging in Madagascar and Brazil -- 9.Ghost Dancing: Excess, Waste, and the American West -- 10.`The Gift of Seeing Resemblances': Cargo Cults in the Antipodes -- 11.Monstrous Grace: Blackness and the New Dance `Crazes'.
Summary
Kélina Gotman examines choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of choreomania, a fantastical concept across scientific disciplines used to designate the spontaneous and uncontrolled movements of crowds.
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ISBN
9780190840457 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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