From ballroom to dancesport : aesthetics, athletics, and body culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 167 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations SUNY series in communication studies SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations. SUNY series in communication studies. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12314344 |
| Summary: | Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more sporty equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasing international anxiety over how and whether to transform ballroom into an Olympic sport. Writing as a participant-critic, Picart suggests that both are crucial sites where bodies are packaged as racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and classed objects. In addition, Picart argues, as the choreography, costuming, and genre of ballroom and DanceSport continue to evolve, these theatrical productions are aestheticized and constructed to encourage commercial appeal, using the narrative frame of the competitive melodrama to heighten audience interest. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 167 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423755774 9781423755777 9780791482414 0791482413 9780791466308 0791466302 9780791466292 0791466299 |