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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Simonson. |
ISBN: | 9780199898015 0199898014 |
OCLC Number: | 844731134 |
Description: | 304 pages |
Contents: | List of Illustrations ; List of Musical Examples ; Acknowledgements ; Prologue: Staging Intermediality: Darktown, Downtown ; 1. Choreographing Salome: Recreating the Female Body ; 2. Acting Ancient: Hellenism, Pageantry, and American Modernity ; 3. Dancing Music: Isadora Duncan and Wagnerism in the American Imagination ; 4. Dancing Pictures: Rita Sacchetto's Tanzbilder ; 5. Moving Images: Adeline Genee and Bessie Clayton's Danced Histories ; 6. Opera on Camera, Opera on Stage: Anna Pavlova and The Dumb Girl of Portici ; Finale: Performing Intermediality in The Passing Show of 1913 ; Bibliography ; Index |
Responsibility: | Mary Simonson. |
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Beautifully researched, rich with compellingly told stories, Body Knowledge offers very smart analyses of how representations and performances of embodiment leap media and genre barriers. A must-read for scholars of musical embodiment. * Suzanne G. Cusick, New York University * Simonson moves us expertly through the rich interchange of live and mediatized American stage cultures of the early 20th century. Through tableaux vivants, filmed opera, pageantry and other spectacles, Simonson resituates our understanding of modernist/post-Victorian performances by giving them the intermedial context they merit. Of great interest to anyone in performance studies, whether in stage, film, music, and especially dance. * Caryl Flinn, Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan * A compelling and deeply researched book that weaves together dance, music, cultural history, gender roles, faddishness, fandom, historical awareness, emerging media, and multimedia interaction in a complex but highly readable fashion. Its strengths are the focus on women's performance, particularly the negotiation of their bodies as display and identity - something at great stake in an era when women were fighting for the vote even as issues of race complicatematters mightily - and the nuance of reading individual moments and their relationships to each other * Robynn Stilwell, Georgetown University * Delves into scholarship that has been either ignored or misinterpreted by other researchers... The superior research and clear prose make this book a welcome addition to the scholarship on this era. Highly recommended. * Choice * Read more...

