When the dancing went wrong, the evening went right
An argument for ageing and changing cultural practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12599357 |
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| Authors | Mark Ball (0000-0002-8158-7768, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 597-612 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13675494231179269 |
| OpenAlex | W4381738568 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Inspired by a line dancing club in Stoke-on-Trent, and drawing principally on cultural theorist Raymond Williams, this article makes the case for appreciating the ways that cultural practices age and change over time. This group of line dancers held a deep, long, and collective familiarity with their practice, and through this intimacy an idiosyncratic attitude to dancing mistakes emerged. Taking these mistakes, collectively recast by dancers as ‘variations’, as the central empirical focus, I describe a sense of collective agency manifesting a solidaristic style of ageing together. Raymond Williams helps make this articulation political: in defending the time and space needed for such attitudes around practice to emerge, and the attitudes themselves
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Articulation (sociology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Theatre and Performance Studies
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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
A life lasts longer than the body through which it moves
The development of working men’s clubs
Cold spots, crap towns and cultural deserts
Meanings of leisure for older people
Thinking Ethnographically
Geographies for Moving Bodies
Cold shoulders and napkins handed
Raymond Williams and Sociology
Culture that works? Creative industries development in a working-class city
The Elusory Body and Social Constructionist Theory
The taking place of older age
| Highly cited | No |
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