Whitney E Laemmli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1469110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Whitney E Laemmli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Whitney E |
| FAMILY NAME | Laemmli |
| SIGNATURE | LAEMMLI W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Taylorism Transfigured: Industrial Rhythm and the British Factory
July 01 2022 Taylorism Transfigured: Industrial Rhythm and the British Factory Whitney Laemmli Whitney Laemmli Whitney Laemmli is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her current book project explores how and why human bodily movement became a central subject of scientific, political, and popular concern over the course of the twentieth century. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
The living record: Alan Lomax and the world archive of movement
In 1965, the American folklorist Alan Lomax set out on a mission: to view, code, catalogue and preserve the totality of the world’s dance traditions. Believing that dance carried otherwise inaccessible information about social structures, work practices and the history of human migration, Lomax and his collaborators gathered more than 250,000 feet of raw film footage and analyzed it using a new system of movement analysis. Lomax’s aims, however, …
Paper Dancers: Art as Information in Twentieth-Century America
Around 1940, a New York City organization known as the Dance Notation Bureau (DNB) began a decades-long effort to promote a system known as “Labanotation.” Designed to capture the ephemeral, three-dimensional complexity of dance on the flat surface of paper, the DNB believed that Labanotation held the key to modernizing the art form. Focusing on the period between 1940 and 1975, this article catalogues the Dance Notation Bureau’s efforts to make …
Embodiment and Mechanisation: Reciprocal Understandings of Body and Machine from the Renaissance to the Present by Daniel Black
Reviewed by: Embodiment and Mechanisation: Reciprocal Understandings of Body and Machine from the Renaissance to the Present by Daniel Black Whitney Laemmli (bio) Embodiment and Mechanisation: Reciprocal Understandings of Body and Machine from the Renaissance to the Present. By Daniel Black. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014; New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 220. $149.95. Daniel Black is not interested in life as a robot. While futurists like Ray Kurzw…
A Case in Pointe: Romance and Regimentation at the New York City Ballet
This article analyzes the ballet dancer's pointe shoe as a technology of artistic production and bodily discipline. Drawing on oral histories, memoirs, dance journals, advertisements, and other archival materials, it demonstrates that the shoe utilized by dancers at George Balanchine's New York City Ballet was not the quintessentially Romantic entity it is so often presumed to be. Instead, it emerged from uniquely twentieth-century systems of lab…
Half a Man: The Symbolism and Science of Paraplegic Impotence in World War II America
At the conclusion of the Second World War, more than 600,000 men returned to the United States with long-term disabilities, profoundly destabilizing the definitions, representations, and experiences of male sexuality in America. By examining an oft-neglected 1950 film, The Men, along with medical, personal, and popular accounts of impotence in paralyzed World War II veterans, this essay excavates the contours of that change and its attendant anxi…
The living record: Alan Lomax and the world archive of movement
In 1965, the American folklorist Alan Lomax set out on a mission: to view, code, catalogue and preserve the totality of the world’s dance traditions. Believing that dance carried otherwise inaccessible information about social structures, work practices and the history of human migration, Lomax and his collaborators gathered more than 250,000 feet of raw film footage and analyzed it using a new system of movement analysis. Lomax’s aims, however, …
Taylorism Transfigured: Industrial Rhythm and the British Factory
July 01 2022 Taylorism Transfigured: Industrial Rhythm and the British Factory Whitney Laemmli Whitney Laemmli Whitney Laemmli is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her current book project explores how and why human bodily movement became a central subject of scientific, political, and popular concern over the course of the twentieth century. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
A Case in Pointe: Romance and Regimentation at the New York City Ballet
This article analyzes the ballet dancer's pointe shoe as a technology of artistic production and bodily discipline. Drawing on oral histories, memoirs, dance journals, advertisements, and other archival materials, it demonstrates that the shoe utilized by dancers at George Balanchine's New York City Ballet was not the quintessentially Romantic entity it is so often presumed to be. Instead, it emerged from uniquely twentieth-century systems of lab…
Half a Man: The Symbolism and Science of Paraplegic Impotence in World War II America
At the conclusion of the Second World War, more than 600,000 men returned to the United States with long-term disabilities, profoundly destabilizing the definitions, representations, and experiences of male sexuality in America. By examining an oft-neglected 1950 film, The Men, along with medical, personal, and popular accounts of impotence in paralyzed World War II veterans, this essay excavates the contours of that change and its attendant anxi…
Embodiment and Mechanisation: Reciprocal Understandings of Body and Machine from the Renaissance to the Present by Daniel Black
Reviewed by: Embodiment and Mechanisation: Reciprocal Understandings of Body and Machine from the Renaissance to the Present by Daniel Black Whitney Laemmli (bio) Embodiment and Mechanisation: Reciprocal Understandings of Body and Machine from the Renaissance to the Present. By Daniel Black. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014; New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 220. $149.95. Daniel Black is not interested in life as a robot. While futurists like Ray Kurzw…
Paper Dancers: Art as Information in Twentieth-Century America
Around 1940, a New York City organization known as the Dance Notation Bureau (DNB) began a decades-long effort to promote a system known as “Labanotation.” Designed to capture the ephemeral, three-dimensional complexity of dance on the flat surface of paper, the DNB believed that Labanotation held the key to modernizing the art form. Focusing on the period between 1940 and 1975, this article catalogues the Dance Notation Bureau’s efforts to make …
The living record: Alan Lomax and the world archive of movement
In 1965, the American folklorist Alan Lomax set out on a mission: to view, code, catalogue and preserve the totality of the world’s dance traditions. Believing that dance carried otherwise inaccessible information about social structures, work practices and the history of human migration, Lomax and his collaborators gathered more than 250,000 feet of raw film footage and analyzed it using a new system of movement analysis. Lomax’s aims, however, …
Taylorism Transfigured: Industrial Rhythm and the British Factory
July 01 2022 Taylorism Transfigured: Industrial Rhythm and the British Factory Whitney Laemmli Whitney Laemmli Whitney Laemmli is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her current book project explores how and why human bodily movement became a central subject of scientific, political, and popular concern over the course of the twentieth century. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
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