Rae Beth Gordon

Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910 (eBook, ePUB)

Vernacular Modernity in France

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the influence of Darwin's evolutionary theory on French thought, Rae Beth Gordon weaves the history of medical science, ethnology, and popular culture into an exploration of the cultural implications of gesture in dance performances in Parisian café-concerts and music-halls. She illuminates the blurring of racial lines in the representations of the primitive and of nervous pathology that informed dances like the Cake-Walk. These dances with Darwin, she contends, constituted an aesthetic of disorder long before Dada and Surrealism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351946421
• Artikelnr.: 49354909

Autorenporträt

Rae Beth Gordon is Professor emerita of French Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Author of numerous essays on 19th-century medicine, literature, and aesthetics, she has written Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (1992) and Why the French love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early French Cinema (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The epileptic singers
Darwinism and degeneration theory in popular culture
What is ugly?
Natural rhythm: Africans and black Americans in Paris
Epileptic singers and the Dark Continent
Darwin meets Père Ubu
Epilogue: Darwin's avant-garde: Ubu's progeny
Bibliography
Index.