Sherril Dodds is Professor of Dance at Temple University. Her research encompasses dance on screen, popular dance, and cultural theory. She is a founding member of the research network PoP MOVES. Her publications include Dance on Screen (Palgrave, 2001), Dancing on the Canon (Palgrave, 2011), and Bodies of Sound (Ashgate, 2013).

• INTRODUCTION Competition Culture: Winning and Losing at Dance Sherril Dodds PART I: Economic and Social Currencies of Competition 1. Taking the Cake: Black Dance, Competition, and ValueNadine George-Graves 2. You've Got to Sell It! Performing on the Dance Competition StageKaren Schupp 3. Competitive Capers: Gender, Gentility, and Dancing in Early Modern EnglandEmily Winerock 4. Endangered Strangers: Tracking Competition in US Federal Dance FundingSarah Wilbur 5. Marking Your Territory: The Struggle to Work in FlamencoKathy Milazzo PART II: Re-Choreographing and Re-Presentation for the Competition Frame 6. Re-appropriating Choreographies of Authenticity in Mexico: Competitions and The Dance of the Old MenRuth Hellier-Tinoco 7. Above and Beyond the Battle: Virtuosity and Excess within Televised Street Dance Crew CompetitionsLaura Robinson 8. Shifting Dynamics: Sean Nós Dancing, Vernacular Expression, and the Competitive Arena of the OireachtasCatherine E. Foley 9. Visible Rhythms: Competition in English Tap Practice Sally Crawford-Shepherd PART III: Winning, Participation, and the Negotiation of Meaning 10. The International Dancehall Queen Competition: A Discursive Space for Competing Images of FemininityCelena Monteiro 11. Congratulations, We Wish You Success: Competition and Community Participation in Romanian Dance FestivalsLiz Mellish 12. Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in Contemporary DanceNalina Wait and Erin Brannigan 13. Reclaiming Competitive Tango: The Rise of Argentina's Campeonato Mundial Juliet McMains 14. Dance-off or a Battle for the Future: Dance Reality Shows in IndiaPallabi Chakravorty PART IV: Judging, Spectatorship, and the Values of Movement 15. Miss Exotic World: Judging the Neo-Burlesque MovementKaitlyn Regehr 16. Rapper Dance Adjudication: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision MakingJeremy Carter-Gordon 17. Dismantling the Genre: Reality Dance Competitions and Layers of Affective IntensificationElena Benthaus 18. Why Are Breaking Battles Judged? The Rise of International CompetitionsMary Fogarty 19. Not Another Don Quixote! Negotiating China's Position on the International Ballet StageRowan McLelland PART V: Losing, Failing, and Auto-Critique 20. Dancing with the Asian American Stars: Margaret Cho and the Failure to WinYutian Wong 21. Loss of Face: Intimidation, Derision, and Failure in the Hip Hop BattleSherril Dodds 22. Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Intersubjectivity in Hybrid Martial Arts Janet O'Shea 23. You Can't Out-do Black People: Soul Train, Queer Witnessing, and Pleasurable CompetitionMelissa Blanco Borelli PART VI: Hidden Agendas and Unspoken Rules 24. Freedom to Compete: Neoliberal Contradictions in Gaga IntensivesMeghan Quinlan 25. We'll Rumble 'em Right: Aggression and Play in the Dance-Offs of West Side Story Ying Zhu and Daniel Belgrad 26. Dancing Like a Man: Competition and Gender in the New Orleans Second LineRachel Carrico 27. Man and Money Ready: Challenge Dancing in Antebellum North America April F. Masten Afterword: Who is Competing?Susan Leigh Foster

...this is an extremely valuable volume, offering fresh perspectives on dance and competition across an extensive spectrum, which opens up potentially fruitful avenues for future folk dance scholars to tread.

Sherril Dodds is Professor of Dance at Temple University. Her research encompasses dance on screen, popular dance, and cultural theory. She is a founding member of the research network PoP MOVES. Her publications include Dance on Screen (Palgrave, 2001), Dancing on the Canon (Palgrave, 2011), and Bodies of Sound (Ashgate, 2013).

• INTRODUCTION Competition Culture: Winning and Losing at Dance Sherril Dodds PART I: Economic and Social Currencies of Competition 1. Taking the Cake: Black Dance, Competition, and ValueNadine George-Graves 2. You've Got to Sell It! Performing on the Dance Competition StageKaren Schupp 3. Competitive Capers: Gender, Gentility, and Dancing in Early Modern EnglandEmily Winerock 4. Endangered Strangers: Tracking Competition in US Federal Dance FundingSarah Wilbur 5. Marking Your Territory: The Struggle to Work in FlamencoKathy Milazzo PART II: Re-Choreographing and Re-Presentation for the Competition Frame 6. Re-appropriating Choreographies of Authenticity in Mexico: Competitions and The Dance of the Old MenRuth Hellier-Tinoco 7. Above and Beyond the Battle: Virtuosity and Excess within Televised Street Dance Crew CompetitionsLaura Robinson 8. Shifting Dynamics: Sean Nós Dancing, Vernacular Expression, and the Competitive Arena of the OireachtasCatherine E. Foley 9. Visible Rhythms: Competition in English Tap Practice Sally Crawford-Shepherd PART III: Winning, Participation, and the Negotiation of Meaning 10. The International Dancehall Queen Competition: A Discursive Space for Competing Images of FemininityCelena Monteiro 11. Congratulations, We Wish You Success: Competition and Community Participation in Romanian Dance FestivalsLiz Mellish 12. Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in Contemporary DanceNalina Wait and Erin Brannigan 13. Reclaiming Competitive Tango: The Rise of Argentina's Campeonato Mundial Juliet McMains 14. Dance-off or a Battle for the Future: Dance Reality Shows in IndiaPallabi Chakravorty PART IV: Judging, Spectatorship, and the Values of Movement 15. Miss Exotic World: Judging the Neo-Burlesque MovementKaitlyn Regehr 16. Rapper Dance Adjudication: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision MakingJeremy Carter-Gordon 17. Dismantling the Genre: Reality Dance Competitions and Layers of Affective IntensificationElena Benthaus 18. Why Are Breaking Battles Judged? The Rise of International CompetitionsMary Fogarty 19. Not Another Don Quixote! Negotiating China's Position on the International Ballet StageRowan McLelland PART V: Losing, Failing, and Auto-Critique 20. Dancing with the Asian American Stars: Margaret Cho and the Failure to WinYutian Wong 21. Loss of Face: Intimidation, Derision, and Failure in the Hip Hop BattleSherril Dodds 22. Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Intersubjectivity in Hybrid Martial Arts Janet O'Shea 23. You Can't Out-do Black People: Soul Train, Queer Witnessing, and Pleasurable CompetitionMelissa Blanco Borelli PART VI: Hidden Agendas and Unspoken Rules 24. Freedom to Compete: Neoliberal Contradictions in Gaga IntensivesMeghan Quinlan 25. We'll Rumble 'em Right: Aggression and Play in the Dance-Offs of West Side Story Ying Zhu and Daniel Belgrad 26. Dancing Like a Man: Competition and Gender in the New Orleans Second LineRachel Carrico 27. Man and Money Ready: Challenge Dancing in Antebellum North America April F. Masten Afterword: Who is Competing?Susan Leigh Foster

...this is an extremely valuable volume, offering fresh perspectives on dance and competition across an extensive spectrum, which opens up potentially fruitful avenues for future folk dance scholars to tread.

Sherril Dodds is Professor of Dance at Temple University. Her research encompasses dance on screen, popular dance, and cultural theory. She is a founding member of the research network PoP MOVES. Her publications include Dance on Screen (Palgrave, 2001), Dancing on the Canon (Palgrave, 2011), and Bodies of Sound (Ashgate, 2013).

• INTRODUCTION Competition Culture: Winning and Losing at Dance Sherril Dodds PART I: Economic and Social Currencies of Competition 1. Taking the Cake: Black Dance, Competition, and ValueNadine George-Graves 2. You've Got to Sell It! Performing on the Dance Competition StageKaren Schupp 3. Competitive Capers: Gender, Gentility, and Dancing in Early Modern EnglandEmily Winerock 4. Endangered Strangers: Tracking Competition in US Federal Dance FundingSarah Wilbur 5. Marking Your Territory: The Struggle to Work in FlamencoKathy Milazzo PART II: Re-Choreographing and Re-Presentation for the Competition Frame 6. Re-appropriating Choreographies of Authenticity in Mexico: Competitions and The Dance of the Old MenRuth Hellier-Tinoco 7. Above and Beyond the Battle: Virtuosity and Excess within Televised Street Dance Crew CompetitionsLaura Robinson 8. Shifting Dynamics: Sean Nós Dancing, Vernacular Expression, and the Competitive Arena of the OireachtasCatherine E. Foley 9. Visible Rhythms: Competition in English Tap Practice Sally Crawford-Shepherd PART III: Winning, Participation, and the Negotiation of Meaning 10. The International Dancehall Queen Competition: A Discursive Space for Competing Images of FemininityCelena Monteiro 11. Congratulations, We Wish You Success: Competition and Community Participation in Romanian Dance FestivalsLiz Mellish 12. Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in Contemporary DanceNalina Wait and Erin Brannigan 13. Reclaiming Competitive Tango: The Rise of Argentina's Campeonato Mundial Juliet McMains 14. Dance-off or a Battle for the Future: Dance Reality Shows in IndiaPallabi Chakravorty PART IV: Judging, Spectatorship, and the Values of Movement 15. Miss Exotic World: Judging the Neo-Burlesque MovementKaitlyn Regehr 16. Rapper Dance Adjudication: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision MakingJeremy Carter-Gordon 17. Dismantling the Genre: Reality Dance Competitions and Layers of Affective IntensificationElena Benthaus 18. Why Are Breaking Battles Judged? The Rise of International CompetitionsMary Fogarty 19. Not Another Don Quixote! Negotiating China's Position on the International Ballet StageRowan McLelland PART V: Losing, Failing, and Auto-Critique 20. Dancing with the Asian American Stars: Margaret Cho and the Failure to WinYutian Wong 21. Loss of Face: Intimidation, Derision, and Failure in the Hip Hop BattleSherril Dodds 22. Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Intersubjectivity in Hybrid Martial Arts Janet O'Shea 23. You Can't Out-do Black People: Soul Train, Queer Witnessing, and Pleasurable CompetitionMelissa Blanco Borelli PART VI: Hidden Agendas and Unspoken Rules 24. Freedom to Compete: Neoliberal Contradictions in Gaga IntensivesMeghan Quinlan 25. We'll Rumble 'em Right: Aggression and Play in the Dance-Offs of West Side Story Ying Zhu and Daniel Belgrad 26. Dancing Like a Man: Competition and Gender in the New Orleans Second LineRachel Carrico 27. Man and Money Ready: Challenge Dancing in Antebellum North America April F. Masten Afterword: Who is Competing?Susan Leigh Foster

...this is an extremely valuable volume, offering fresh perspectives on dance and competition across an extensive spectrum, which opens up potentially fruitful avenues for future folk dance scholars to tread.