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Valuing Dance

Susan Leigh Foster · ISBN 9780190933982
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Publisher Oxford University Press USA
Author(s) Susan Leigh Foster
Subtitle Commodities and Gifts in Motion
Published 15th March 2019
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Commodities and Gifts in Motion

Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It examines
two ways that dance can be exchanged, as commodity and as gift, reflecting on how each establishes dance's relative worth and merit differently. When and why do we give dance? Where and to whom do we sell
it? How are such acts of exchange rationalized and justified? Valuing Dance poses these questions in order to contribute to a conversation around what dance is, what it does, and why it matters.
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