The Body as Cultural Producer

Authors

  • Verena Kuni FB III/Kunstgeschichte, Universität Trier

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/111

Keywords:

Ästhetik, Körper, Kultur, Tanz, Wissenschaftstheorie, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

"The Body is the Message”. Gabriele Klein’s book Electronic Vibration analyses the dancing body as a site of an aesthetically processed social mimesis. In techno and rave culture, says Klein, dancing functions as a process of appropriation, by which the consumption of music is being transformed into a (pop-)cultural practice. Thus, rather than being reduced to a signifier of culture, the dancing body has to be understood as a site of cultural production as well as an agent thereof.

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Published

2002-03-01

Issue

No. 6 (2002): Musik, Film, Bühne und Kunst

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2002 Verena Kuni

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