Description

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Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate complex expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice.

About the Author

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SHERRIL DODDS Head of the Department of Dance, Film and Theatre at the University of Surrey. She leads the Performances of the Popular research group and co-organizes the POP MOVES research events. She is also author of Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art.