Description: Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest, there remains no thorough-going critical examination of the ways in which musicologists might engage with dance, thinking not only about specific repertoires or genres, but about fundamental commonalities between the two, including embodiment, agency, subjectivity and consciousness. This volume begins to fill this gap. Ten chapters illustrate a range of conceptual, historical and interpretive approaches that advance the interdisciplinary study of music and dance. This methodological eclecticism is a defining feature of the volume, integrating insights from critical theory, film and cultural studies, the visual arts, phenomenology, cultural anthropology and literary criticism into the study of music and dance.
Brief description: Davinia Caddy writes about the interrelations between music, the visual arts and gesture. She is the author of The Ballets Russes and Beyond (Cambridge, 2012), and is currently working on projects related to contemporary musical culture, archival theory and practice.
Review Quotes: 'This refreshing and thoughtful book contributes to the body of research that has been synthesizing dance and music for more than 30 years ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. E. Handfield, Choice