To Dance is Human

出版者:Univ of Chicago Pr

作者:Hanna, Judith Lynne

页数:340

出版时间:1987-9

价格:$ 33.90

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780226315492

图书标签:ethnomusicology

Exploring dance from the rural villages of Africa to the stages of Lincoln Center, Judith Lynne Hanna shows that it is as human to dance as it is to learn, to build, or to fight. Dance is human thought and feeling expressed through the body: it is at once organized physical movement, language, and a system of rules appropriate in different social situations. Hanna offers a theory of dance, drawing on work in anthropology, semiotics, sociology, communications, folklore, political science, religion, and psychology as well as the visual and performing arts. A new preface provides commentary on recent developments in dance research and an updated bibliography.