Choreomusicology

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 Phryne: Reconstructing Belle-Epoque 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