The University Press of Florida and UF Press proudly present our award-winning books and authors from the last year. Florida Springs: From Geography to Politics and RestorationChristopher F. Meindl Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary … Continue reading 2024-25 Year in Review: Awards Won
Shaping Dance Canons Reveals the Power of Newspaper Critics Who Write about the Arts
By Kate Mattingly, author of Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity This book is available at a discount price through June 30, 2023. Order here and use code DSA23 at checkout. Have you ever wondered who decides which artists go into our history courses and textbooks? And what criteria are used to establish greatness or canonicity? These questions hit … Continue reading Shaping Dance Canons Reveals the Power of Newspaper Critics Who Write about the Arts
Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity
“Assembled with urgent clarity and razor-sharp analytical force, this thoughtful book provokes a consideration of how it is that some writers make sense, or non-sense, of the worlds of dance we share. Mattingly helps the reader understand that dance criticism is bound up in systems of exclusion and disavowal that must be acknowledged. An offering … Continue reading Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity
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