Abstract for an upcoming article written by me and Dirk vom Lehn, soon to be freed from the pandemic year’s stalled R&R cycle. Drafts are available if you’re willing to provide feedback!
Abstract
Although dance features frequently in sociological theory, there are few empirical studies exploring the social practices through which people learn to dance together. This paper takes as its starting point that couple dances are often presented as metaphors to illustrate theories about social order and interaction. We examine a video dataset collected as part of a full-day workshop and explore how novice dancers learn to perform several basic social dance steps in time with their partners and in a rhythmic environment. The analysis shows how dancers use rhythm, body, language, and other resources to organize their social interactions and shows how ethnomethodology and conversational analysis provide a critical viewpoint for examining sociological theories about the relationship between the body and the social.
Keywords: ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, multimodality, dance, culture,
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