Movies, Moves and Music: The Sonic World of Dance Films by Mark Evans (English)

Description: Movies, Moves and Music by Mark Evans, Mary Fogarty This volume investigates the relationship between movement and sound as it is revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. It considers the role of all aspects of sound in the dance film, including the dancer generated sounds inherent in Tap, Flamenco, Irish Dance and Krumping. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising resilience. A phenomena of modern movie-making, the dance film has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as sociological voice (Saturday Night Fever, Footloose and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a marker of post-modern ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern genre has influenced cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made dimensional, in the way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in the filmic capacity to create narrative worlds without words. Emerging as a distinct (sub)genre in the 1970s, dance film has been crafting its own meta-narrative and aesthetic paradigms that, nonetheless, display extraordinary variety. Ranging from the experimental, you are there sonic explorations of Robert Altmans The Company and the brutal energy of David La Chappelles Rize to the lighter backstage musical form displayed in Centre Stage and Save the Last Dance, this genre has garnered both commercial and artistic success.Meanwhile, Bollywood has become a juggernaut, creating transportable memory for diasporic Indian communities across the world.This is an entire industry based on the dance number, where films are pitched around the choreography, where the actors are not expected to sing, but they must dance. This series of essays investigates the relationship between movement and sound as it is revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. It considers the role of all aspects of sound in the dance film, including the dancer generated sounds inherent in Tap, Flamenco, Irish Dance and Krumping. Drawing on significant post-War dance films from around world, Movies, Moves and Music comprehensively surveys this mainstream genre, where image and sound meet in a crucial symbiosis. Author Biography Professor Mark Evans is Head of the School of Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is Series Editor for Genre, Music and Sound (Equinox Publishing) and is currently Editor for The International Encyclopedia of Film Music and Sound. He Co-Edits the international journal, Perfect Beat, and holds an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant to design an artistic and environmental map of the Shoalhaven basin in New South Wales. His upcoming books include Sounding Funny: Comedy, Cinema and Music (with Phillip Hayward) and Moves, Movies and Music: The Sound of Dance Films (with Mary Fogarty). Mary Fogarty is an Assistant Professor of Dance at York University, Canada. Her work about hip hop dance, film and video appears in the following anthologies: The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (2014), and Ageing and Youth Cultures (2012). She is the lead facilitator/lecturer for the Toronto B-Girl Movement, a community program that mentors girls and women in hip hop culture . Table of Contents 1. The Sonic World of Dance Films Mark Evans and Mary Fogarty 2. From Choreocinema To Experimental Screendance: A Personal Archaeology Greg Faller, Towson University, USA 3. From Beat Street to Step Up 3D: The Sound of Street Dance Films Mary Fogarty 4. Space, Authenticity and Utopia in the Hip-Hop Teen Dance Film Faye Woods, University of Reading, UK 5. The School and The Streets: Race, Class, Sound, and Space in Step Up and Step Up 2Brian Su-Jen Chung, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Afia Ofori-Mensa, Oberlin College, USA 6. The essence and momentum of Honey: An Interplay of Sound and Movement Diane Hughes, Macquarie University, Australia 7. Gone in a Flash(dance): The Estrangement of Diegetic Performance in the 1980s Teen Dance Film Kelly Kessler, DePaul University, USA8. Anything But Ballet: Individuality, Genre-Bending, and Sexual Expression in Center StageGillian Turnbull, Independent Scholar 9. Zoot Suit Mayhem: Swing Dance and the Politics of Revisionist History in Steven Spielbergs 1941Philip Hayward, University of Technology, Sydney, and Jon Fitzgerald, Southern Cross University, Australia 10. Across the Universe and Nostalgia: Re-presenting the Beatles Through Moving Images and Dancing Bodies Colleen Dunagan, California State University, Long Beach, and Roxane Fenton, Independent Scholar 11. Looking for the Past in Pastiche: Intertextuality in Bollywood Song-and-Dance Sequences Usha Iyer, University of the West Indies, St Augustine 12. The Call to RizeMegan Anne Todd, Independent Scholar 13. Resounding Neurological Ecologies: Choreographing the Bodys Lost Interactions with the World Sarah-Mace Dennis, Independent Scholar Review "The interdisciplinary perspectives found in Movies, Moves and Music easily augment music curricula and provide an opportunity for further study in undergraduate and graduate courses that unite music, dance, and screen." --Elizabeth Hoover, Notes, September 2018 Long Description Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising resilience. It has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as sociological voice (Saturday Night Fever, Footloose, and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a marker of post-modern ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern genre has influenced cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made dimensional, in the way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in the filmic capacity to create narrative worlds without words. Meanwhile, Bollywood has become a juggernaut, creating transportable memory for diasporic Indian communities across the world. This is an entire industry based on the dance number, where films are pitched around the choreography, where the actors are not expected to sing, but they must dance. This volume investigates the relationship between movement and sound as it is revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. It considers the role of all aspects of sound in the dance film, including the dancer generated sounds inherent in Tap, Flamenco, Irish Dance and Krumping. Drawing on significant post-War dance films from around world, Movies, Moves and Music comprehensively surveys this mainstream genre, where image and sound meet in a crucial symbiosis. Review Text "The interdisciplinary perspectives found in Movies, Moves and Music easily augment music curricula and provide an opportunity for further study in undergraduate and graduate courses that unite music, dance, and screen." --Elizabeth Hoover, Notes, September 2018 Details ISBN1845539583 Short Title MOVIES MOVES & MUSIC Language English ISBN-10 1845539583 ISBN-13 9781845539580 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2016 Author Mary Fogarty Publication Date 2016-01-20 Subtitle The Sonic World of Dance Films UK Release Date 2016-01-20 Imprint Equinox Publishing Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 46 figures AU Release Date 2016-01-20 NZ Release Date 2016-01-20 Pages 276 Publisher Equinox Publishing Ltd Series Genre, Music & Sound Edited by Mary Fogarty DEWEY 791.43657 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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