Bodies of Sound: Studies Across Popular Music and Dance (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals the intimate connections between the corporeal and the sonic in the creation, transmission and reception of popular dance and music, which is imagined here as 'bodies of sound'. The volume provokes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation that includes scholarship from Asia, Europe and the United States, which explores topics from the nineteenth century through to the present day and engages with practices at local, national and transnational levels.In Part I: Constructing the Popular, the authors explore how categories of popular music and dance are constructed and de-stabilized, and their proclivity to appropriate and re-imagine cultural forms and meanings. In Part II: Authenticity, Revival and Reinvention, the authors examine how popular forms produce and manipulate identities and meanings through their attraction to and departure from cultural traditions. In Part III: (Re)Framing Value, the authors interrogate how values are inscribed, silenced, rearticulated and capitalized through popular music and dance. And in Part IV: Politics of the Popular, the authors read the popular as a site of political negotiation and transformation. From The Ragtime One-step Of The Early 20th Century To The Contemporary Practices Of Youth Club Cultures, Dance And Music Are Inextricably Linked. In This Book, Scholars And Practitioners From Asia, Europe And The United States Explore Topics Ranging From The 19th Century Through To The Present Day. Constructing The Popular. The Problem Of Popularity : The Cancan Between The French And Digital Revolutions / Clare Parfitt-brown ; Bellowhead : Re-entering Folk Through A Pop Movement Aesthetic / Sherril Dodds ; Sound Understandings : Embodied Musical Knowledge And Connection In A Ballroom Dance Community / Joanna Bosse -- Authenticity, Revival, And Reinvention. Dancing Out Of Time : The Forgotten Boston Of Edwardian England / Theresa Jill Buckland ; The English Folk Voice : Singing And Cultural Identity In The English Folk Revival, 1955-65 / Simon Featherstone ; Halling As A Tool For Nationalistic Strategies / Anne Margrete Fiskvik -- (re)framing Value. Rocking The Rhythm : Dancing Identities In Drum 'n' Bass Club Culture / Joanna Hall ; Authenticity, Uplift, And Cultural Value In Bahian Samba Junino / Danielle Robinson And Jeff Packman ; Hierarchical Reversals : The Interplay Of Dance And Music In West Side Story / Rachel Duerden & Bonnie Rowell ; Talking Machines, Dancing Bodies : Marketing Recorded Dance Music Before World War 1 / Susan C. Cook -- Politics Of The Popular. Superficial Profundity : Performative Translation Of The Dancing Body In Contemporary Taiwanese Popular Culture / Chih-chieh Liu ; Keeping The Faith : Issues Of Identity, Spectacle, And Embodiment In Northern Soul / Laura Robinson ; Jazz, Dance, And Black British Identities / Catherine Tackley. Edited By Sherril Dodds And Susan C. Cook. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [213]-229) And Index. From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals the intimate connections between the corporeal and the sonic in the creation, transmission and reception of popular dance and music, which is imagined here as'bodies of sound'. The volume provokes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation that includes scholarship from Asia, Europe and the United States, which explores topics from the nineteenth century through to the present day and engages with practices at local, national and transnational levels. In Part I: Constructing the Popular, the authors explore how categories of popular music and dance are constructed and de-stabilized, and their proclivity to appropriate and re-imagine cultural forms and meanings. In Part II: Authenticity, Revival and Reinvention, the authors examine how popular forms produce and manipulate identities and meanings through their attraction to and departure from cultural traditions. In Part III: (Re)Framing Value, the authors interrogate how values are inscribed, silenced, rearticulated and capitalized through popular music and dance. And in Part IV: Politics of the Popular, the authors read the popular as a site of political negotiation and transformation. From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals the intimate connections between the corporeal and the sonic in the creation, transmission and reception of popular dance and music, which is imagined here as bodies of sound. The volume provokes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation that includes scholarship from Asia, Europe and the United States, which explores topics from the nineteenth century through to the present day and engages with practices at local, national and transnational levels. In Part Constructing the Popular, the authors explore how categories of popular music and dance are constructed and de-stabilized, and their proclivity to appropriate and re-imagine cultural forms and meanings. In Part Authenticity, Revival and Reinvention, the authors examine how popular forms produce and manipulate identities and meanings through their attraction to and departure from cultural traditions. In Part (Re)Framing Value, the authors interrogate how values are inscribed, silenced, rearticulated and capitalized through popular music and dance. And in Part Politics of the Popular, the authors read the popular as a site of political negotiation and transformation.