Symposium on Popular Dance and Music

Saturday 20 October 2007, 09:00
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU7 7XH

The Department of Dance Studies and The Department of Music and Sound Recording at University of Surrey in collaboration with The Society for Dance Research

SYMPOSIUM ON POPULAR DANCE AND MUSIC

Programme:

Theresa Jill Buckland: Dancing Out of Time: The Forgotten Boston of Edwardian England

Inger Damsholt: Slow, Slow, Quick-Quick: Polymetric Choreomusical Relationships in the Popular Domain

Clare Parfitt: Revolting Bodies: Popular Dance and Mass politics

Hettie Malcomson: Danzón: Music and the Reinvention of a Dance Tradition

Timothy Wise: Beguines in Outer Space: Dance Rhythms and Affect in Mass-Mediated Popular Music

Anne Fiskvik: From Traditional to Popular: A Choreomusical Analysis of ‘Hallingdans’ in the Norwegian TV Version of  ‘So You Think You Can Dance’

Joanna Louise Hall: Boys, Bass and Bovver: Dance Movement and Identity Construction in England’s Drum ‘n’ Bass Club Culture

Rob Lindop: Does Electronic Dance Music Make Sense Away from the Dancefloor? Issues of Function, Creativity and Intention in the Psy-Trance Scene

Rachel Duerden and Bonnie Rowell: An Altogether Different Story: Challenging Stereotypes in ‘Dance at the Gym’

Eloisa Leite Domenici and Danielle Robinson: Popular Dance in University Dance Programs-An Intercultural Dialogue about Dance and Education

Kirsten Harvey: Jazz Music and Dance in America during the Twentieth Century: The Art of Jazz Dance Improvisation

Brain Harker: Trumpeters and Dancers in Early Jazz: A Forgotten partnership

Vicky Spanovangelis: The Concept of Improvisation in Greek Folk Music and Dance

Helena Hammond: Hytner’s Home Movie: Broadway, Balanchine and Belonging in ‘Centre Stage’

Dr Sherril Dodds, Symposium on Popular Dance and Music, Department of Dance Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU7 7XH.
S.Dodds@surrey.ac.uk

 

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