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Funny moves

dance humor politics
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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marta E. Savigliano and Hannah Schwadron
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: [2025]
Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford University Press
Media group: Buch
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"Funny Moves explores the politics of dance humor in ten case studies found on stages, screens and streets of Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States. Moves found funny are the Other to dance because funniness emerges whenever bodies move otherwise and outside of discipline. Furthermore, the same skillfulness needed to make a dance "serious" can also make it seem funny to the "wrong" spectators. These essays examine who laughs at whose moves, and who doesn't, and they ponder the situated cultural politics of laughter. Funniness, whether gleeful, surprising, or odd, intentionally so or not, is shown to arise from social disruptions, which may be progressive or conservative, or both, and which are always contested"-- Provided by publisher

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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marta E. Savigliano and Hannah Schwadron
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: [2025]
Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford University Press
Works included: 1: "Now is the time. Come, come!": Gender, Caste, and Erotic Humor in Bharatanatyam - 2: Burla y Bulla : Humor and Critique in Flamenco - 3: Insolent Tangos, 4: Story TAILS of a Wounded Sister - 5: Gendering Angry Fun: Sensual Improprieties in Shamin Ara's Urdu Action Film - 6: Chaplin's Border Moves and My Own: Dance and Humor in the Tijuana-San Diego Region, 7: Un/funny Business in On the Town (1949 - )8: Sincerely Funny or Funny Sincerity: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Cosplay Choreographies - 9: ShiJokes, Ugly Dancing: Funny Moves in Al-Hakawati's Anticolonial Museum
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ISBN: 9780197765760
ISBN (2nd): 9780197765777
Description: ix, 279 pages, illustrations
Tags: Dance / Social aspects; Humor; Dance / Political aspects; Sex in dance
Participating parties: Search for this character Savigliano, Marta Elena (editor); Schwadron, Hannah (editor)
Language: Englisch
Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
Media group: Buch