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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by RebekahKowal, RandyMartin, and GeraldSiegmund. 2017. New York: Oxford University Press. 656 pp., 32 photographs. $150.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780199928187.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2018

Sarah Wilbur
Sarah Wilbur*
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Duke University
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At 656 pages wide and 31 authors deep, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics collection contains a veritable who's who of US, UK, and EU dance scholarship. It also importantly documents the weight of the loss to the field of coeditor Randy Martin, whose materialist investigations of dance and politics influence the volume's contributions in powerful and explicit ways. Through the dedicated energies of Martin's fellow coeditors Rebekah Kowal and Gerald Siegmund, the volume updates an editorial burden assumed by earlier collections and field progenitors: interpreting dance's irreconcilable relationship to politics, a tension that the volume's contributors do not promise to reconcile. But what the text does, and with great urgency, is to revise and update long-standing debates on dance's politics of representation while also flagging hierarchical issues internal to dance research as areas for future investigation.

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , August 2018 , pp. 78 - 87
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Copyright © Dance Studies Association 2018 

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