Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

"A work of stunning originality and relentless intelligence,Social Choreographyrestores the performing body to its central place in the narrative of aesthetic modernism and its vexed relationship to politics. Taking his examples from the history of dance, popular as well as elite, and the discourses surrounding it in Europe and America, Andrew Hewitt conducts a master class in non-reductive ideology critique."-Martin Jay, author ofSongs of Experience: Modern European and American Variations on a Universal ThemeAndrew Hewitt is the author of 'Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement (Post-Contemporary Interventions)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822335023 and ISBN 0822335026.