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Coalition dances : Georgian caricature’s choreographies of power
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Taylor, David F. (2011) Coalition dances : Georgian caricature’s choreographies of power. Music in Art : International Journal for Music Iconography, 36 . pp. 117-130. ISSN 1522-7464.
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Abstract
Over the past fifteen years, scholars of eighteenth-century Britain have come to place increasing importance on the caricature, as both a counter-aesthetic and a rich repository of cultural information. The caricature has immense value, specifically political caricature, also for the dance historian. Focusing on three prints, each of which responds to the same political event—the short-lived Fox-North coalition of 1783—but which appropriates and portrays a different type of dance to do so, I elicits not only the confidence with which graphic satirists harnessed dance as a politico-satirical vocabulary, but, more crucially, the particular ideological connotations attached to different dance forms.
Dance involves bodies working together, negotiating one another, grouping and interacting in complex ways. Equally, it is a form of mastery, a system of discipline in which the body is drilled and coerced through pre-established patterns of choreography, and the rhythm and tempo of the music. These dimensions of dance provided caricaturists with a precise and resonant syntax of power and power-relations—a language through which the continually shifting hierarchies, tensions, and alliances involved in parliamentary politics could be explored, satirized, and re-imagined.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Music in Art : International Journal for Music Iconography | ||||
| Publisher: | University of New York | ||||
| ISSN: | 1522-7464 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | 36 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 117-130 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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