ethnochoreology

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noun

The interdisciplinary study of the cultural and social aspects of dance.

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Meanings

nounethnochoreology (usually uncountable, plural ethnochoreologies)

plural ethnochoreologies

  1. uncountableusuallyThe interdisciplinary study of the cultural and social aspects of dance.

    Ukrainian ethnochoreology has its own profile, including an emphasis on certain issues, and a lack of emphasis on others.

    2011, Andriy Nahachewsky, Ukrainian Dance: A Cross-Cultural Approach, McFarland & Company, page 2
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    Ethnochoreology, the sister discipline of ethnomusicology, is the study of dance or other human movement practices within the context of culture, society, and history.

    2019, Catherine E. Foley, “Ethnochoreology”, in Janet Sturman, editor, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE, page 843

    Drawing on our combined experiences with Irish traditional music and dance, we explore the dialectic between research and practice, insider and outsider, self and other, and ethnomusicology and its sister (or, more aptly, queer little brother) discipline of ethnochoreology.

    2020, Aileen Dillane, Nic Gareiss, “The Lion, the Witch and the Closet: Heteronormative Institutional Research and the Queering of 'Traditions'”, in Gregory Barz, William Cheng, editors, Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology, Oxford University Press, page 236

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