Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190933982)

Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It examines two ways that dance can be exchanged, as commodity and as gift, reflecting on how each establishes dance's relative worth and merit differently. When and why do we give dance? Where and to whom do we sell it? How are such acts of exchange rationalized and justified? Valuing Dance poses these questions in order to contribute to a conversation around what dance is, what it does, and why it matters.

Author: Susan Leigh Foster
ISBN-10: 0190933984
ISBN-13: 9780190933982
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d