Kinetic Cultures : Modernism and Embodiment on the Belle Epoque Stage Hardback
by Rachana Vajjhala
Part of the California Studies in 20th-Century Music series
Hardback
Description
Belle époque Paris adored dance. Whether at the music hall or in more refined theaters, audiences flocked to see the spectacles offered to them by the likes of Isadora Duncan, Diaghilev’s flashy company, and an embarrassment of Salomés.
After languishing in the shadow of opera for much of the nineteenth century, ballet found itself part of this lively kinetic constellation.
In Kinetic Cultures, Rachana Vajjhala argues that far from being mere delectation, ballet was implicated in the larger republican project of national rehabilitation through a rehabilitation of its citizens.
By tracing the various gestural complexes of the period—bodybuilding routines, appropriate physical comportment for women, choreographic vocabularies, and more–-Vajjhala presents a new way of understanding histories of dance and music, one that she locates in gesture and movement.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 29 b-w figures, 10 music examples
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2023
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- ISBN:9780520356276
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 29 b-w figures, 10 music examples
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520356276
