1st Edition
Choreomusicology Dialogues in Music and Dance
The Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology
Edited by Samuel N Dorf and Helen Julia Minors
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Helen Julia Minors and Samuel Dorf
Part I: Theories, Ideas
“The eye and the ear in collaboration… sound and movement in translation”
Helen Julia Minors
“Is a Still Dance Still a Dance? Cage’s 4’33” and Taylor’s Duet”
Renee Conroy
“Virtual Powers: Ballet and Susanne Langer Reconsidered”
Carlo Caballero
“Aesthetics of Sweat in African Dance”
Gavin Steingo and Lyndsey Copeland
“Making Water Great Again: The Bellagio Water Fountain and Neoliberal Spectacle”
Sumanth Gopinath and Elizabeth Hartman
Part II: Choreomusicology Past and Present
“Is Medieval Choreomusicology Possible?”
Mary Channen Caldwell
“‘Terpsichore Unchained’: Renaissance Dance and the English Court Masque, Reimagined for the Twentieth Century”
Wendy Heller
“Recovering Phryné: Reconstructing Belle-Époque Ballet Through Archival Sources”
Sarah Gutsche-Miller
“Stepanov Dance Notation, Western Music Notation, and the Graphic Method”
Sophie Benn
“Capturing Music, Capturing Dance: Ted Shawn’s ‘Music Films’”
Mary Simonson
“On the Boloshoi, and on Kirill Serebrennikov’s Nureyev”
Simon Morrison
“Cakewalking the Black Atlantic: Wagner and Ragtime in Imperial Germany”
Chantal Frankenbach
“‘This Thing Might Turn into Something’: The Choreomusical Layers of Hellzapoppin’”
Rachel Short and Christi Jay Wells
“Resilience, Mobility, and Transformative Power in the Afro-Cuban Muelleo”
Sarah Town
“The National Tea Dance: The Forging of a Unified Gay Musical Identity”
Louis Niebur
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Samuel N. Dorf is Alumni Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Music at the University of Dayton, US.
Helen Julia Minors is Professor and Head of the School of the Arts at York St John University, UK.
