Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822940841 ISBN 13: 9780822940845

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999

Synopsis

This text introduces students to research methods in dance. The editors introduce dance as evolutional, raising issues of definition and naming, defining dance in view of its intrinsic participatory values, its developmental aspects, and its purposes from art to ritual.

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Review

Finally, a comprehensive and easy to read text that explains clearly the myriad approaches to dance research, and demystifies the process of scholarly writing about dance. Professional resaerchers as well as students will benefit greatly from this book no matter what aspect of dance they are writing about. Researching Dance should be required reading for every college and university dance student.
--Larry Lavender"

"Finally, a comprehensive and easy to read text that explains clearly the myriad approaches to dance research, and demystifies the process of scholarly writing about dance. Professional resaerchers as well as students will benefit greatly from this book no matter what aspect of dance they are writing about. Researching Dance should be required reading for every college and university dance student."
--Larry Lavender

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0822940841
• ISBN 13: 9780822940845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 450
• Editor: Fraleigh Sondra Horton, Hanstein Penelope