Movies, Moves and Music

The Sonic World of Dance Films

edited by Mark Evans and Mary Fogarty

Book cover: Movies, Moves and Music

Extent: 224 pages

Publisher: Equinox Publishing

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Series: Genre, Music and Sound

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2016)

ISBN: 9781845539580

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $29.95

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Hardback (Published)

(February 2016)

ISBN: 9781781794449

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $100.00

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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.

Chapter 1 The Sonic World of Dance Films Mary Fogarty, Mark Evans Chapter 2 From Choreocinema to Experimental Screendance: A Personal Archaeology Greg S. Fowler Chapter 3 From Beat Street to Step Up 3D: The Sound of Street Dance Films Mary Fogarty Chapter 4 Space, Authenticity and Utopia in the Hip-Hop Teen Dance Film Faye Woods Chapter 5 The School and 'The Streets': Race, Class, Sound, and Space in Step Up and Step Up 2 Brian Su-Jen Chung, Afia Oforia-Mensa Chapter 6 The Essence and Momentum of Honey: An Interplay of Sound and Movement Diane Hughes Chapter 7 Gone in a Flash(dance): The Estrangement of Diegetic Performance in the 1980s Teen Dance Film Kelly Kessler Chapter 8 'Anything But Ballet': Individuality, Genre-Bending, and Sexual Expression in Center Stage Gillian Turnbull Chapter 9 Swing Dance and the Politics of Revisionist History in Steven Spielberg's 1941 Philip Hayward, Jon Fitzgerald Chapter 10 Across the Universe and Nostalgia: Re-presenting the Beatles Through Moving Images and Dancing Bodies Colleen Dunagan, Roxane Fenton Chapter 11 Looking for the Past in Pastiche: Intertextuality in Bollywood Song-and-Dance Sequences Usha Iyer Chapter 12 The Call to Rize Megan Anne Todd Chapter 13 Resounding Neurological Ecologies: Choreographing the Body's Lost Interactions with the World Sarah Mace-Dennis

  • Edited by Mark Evans
  • Edited by Mary Fogarty

"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
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