Dancing On The Canon Embodiments Of Value In Popular Dance

Dancing On The Canon, Now Available In Paperback For The First Time, Explores The Vexed Relationship Between Popular Dance And Value. In A Critique Of The Western Art Canon, It Traces The Shifting Value Systems That Underpin Popular Dance Scholarship And Considers How Different Dancing Communities Articulate Multiple And Often Paradoxical Expressions Of Judgment, Significance And Worth Through Their Embodied Practice. Employing A Cultural Theory Approach, It Focuses On The Choreographic Content Of Neo-burlesque Striptease In London And York, The Dance Styles Of British Punk, Metal And Ska Fans, And The Vernacular Dances Of A British-caribbean Dancehall To Interrogate How Value Is Produced, Negotiated And Re-imagined.