Embodied Nostalgia: Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Synopsis

Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre. The case studies in this volume are all Broadway musicals set during the Jazz Age (1910-1950), however, performed and produced after that time, creating a spectrum of nostalgic impulses that are interrogated for social and political resonance and meaning. All reflect the fractures or changes in the social dance when brought to the stage and expose the complexities of the embodied nostalgia – broadly interpreted as the physicalizing of community memories, longings, and historical meaning – the dances carry with them. Particular attention is focused on the Black ownership of the social dances and the subsequent appropriation, cultural theft, and forgotten legacies. By approaching musical theatre through this lens of social dance––always already deeply connected to notions of class and race––and the politics of choreography therein, a unique and necessary method to describing, discussing, and critically evaluating the body in motion in musical theatre is put forth.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

234 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000909876

Related ISBNs:

9781003163688, 9780367757205, 9780367757199

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/11/23

Copyrighted By:

Phoebe Rumsey

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Music

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