Movies, Moves and Music - The Sonic World of Dance Films - Mark Evans

Movies, Moves and Music - The Sonic World of Dance Films - Mark Evans

The Sonic World of Dance Films

Movies, Moves and Music - The Sonic World of Dance Films - Mark Evans

Mary Fogarty [+-]
York University
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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 (www.keeprockinyou.com).
Mark Evans [+-]
University of Technology Sydney
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. Recent books include Sounding Funny: Comedy, Cinema and Music (with Phillip Hayward) and Moves, Movies and Music: The Sound of Dance Films (with Mary Fogarty), and The New Music Industries: Disruption and Discovery (co-authored with Hughes, Morrow and Keith), published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Much scholarship on dance film neglects the significant role of music and sound contained within these films. This disconnect is related to the ongoing absence of the instrumental role of music in dance analysis. Dance scholars have taken music seriously from a variety of diverse perspectives (e.g. Jordan, 2000; Garcia, 2009; Johnson, 2012; Dodds and Cook, 2013). Yet, in dance studies broadly organized, there is a lack of musical focus on ‘entertainment’ dance films as a result, in part, of the general dearth of research about dance within ‘commercial’ entertainment and the music industries. This is compounded by the centrality of music in the latter. In this chapter, music and sound are considered to be central to the significance of dance in both popular dance films and the avant-garde traditions of screen dance.

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Fogarty, Mary ; Evans, Mark. The Sonic World of Dance Films. Movies, Moves and Music - The Sonic World of Dance Films. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 1-13 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781845539580. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=27427. Date accessed: 16 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.27427. Jan 2016

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