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dc.contributor.authorCarr, Janeen
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Irvenen
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-16T10:42:56Z
dc.date.available2018-11-16T10:42:56Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-09
dc.identifier.citationCarr J, Lewis I (2019) 'Improvisational practices in jazz dance battles', in Midgelow V (ed(s).). The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, edn, Oxford: OUP pp.-.en
dc.identifier.isbn9780199396986
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/622970
dc.description.abstractWith specific reference to bebop, one of the new styles of improvised jazz dancing that developed in Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s, this essay explores the improvisatory practices associated with the dance challenges, or battles, which were an integral feature of the club scenes within which this dancing emerged. Drawing on the authors’ different perspectives—Irven Lewis’s firsthand experiences of dancing and teaching this style together with Jane Carr’s analysis of the embodied experiences of dance—allows for reflection on the improvisatory practices and their significance. The pan-African cultural influence on the development of jazz dancing is recognized alongside consideration of how this particular style of dancing embodied resistance to a binary division of Western/Africanist culture. Further, the improvised dancing is shown to be reciprocally related to the specific contexts within which it is practised, by virtue of the complex interrelationships between those participating.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOUPen
dc.relation.urlhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-improvisation-in-dance-9780199396986?cc=gb⟨=en&en
dc.subjectimprovisational jazz dancingen
dc.subjectjazzen
dc.subjectimprovisationen
dc.subjectdanceen
dc.subjectW540 Types of Danceen
dc.titleImprovisational practices in jazz dance battlesen
dc.title.alternativeThe Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Danceen
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dc.date.updated2018-11-16T10:41:07Z
html.description.abstractWith specific reference to bebop, one of the new styles of improvised jazz dancing that developed in Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s, this essay explores the improvisatory practices associated with the dance challenges, or battles, which were an integral feature of the club scenes within which this dancing emerged. Drawing on the authors’ different perspectives—Irven Lewis’s firsthand experiences of dancing and teaching this style together with Jane Carr’s analysis of the embodied experiences of dance—allows for reflection on the improvisatory practices and their significance. The pan-African cultural influence on the development of jazz dancing is recognized alongside consideration of how this particular style of dancing embodied resistance to a binary division of Western/Africanist culture. Further, the improvised dancing is shown to be reciprocally related to the specific contexts within which it is practised, by virtue of the complex interrelationships between those participating.


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