Dance in US Popular Culture

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<P>This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in¿and through¿culture. </P><P>By drawing on material relevant to students, <I>Dance in US Popular Culture</I> successfully introduces students to critical thinking around the most personal of terrain: our bodies and our identities. The book asks readers to think about: </P><UL><P><LI>what embodied knowledge we carry with us and how we can understand history and society through that lens </LI><P></P><P><LI>what stereotypes and accompanying expectations are embedded in performance, related to gender and/or race, for instance</LI><P></P><P><LI>how such expectations are reinforced, negotiated, challenged, embraced, or rescripted by performers and audiences</LI><P></P><P><LI>how readers articulate their own sense of complex identity within the constantly shifting landscape of popular culture, how this shapes an active sen