Abstract
DANCE IS BECOMING AN EXCITING INTERDISCIPLINARY MEETING GROUND for cultural inquiry. Social and cultural historians have found dance to be an important location for examining the impact of commercial leisure, the creation of heterosocial space, and exploring the meaning of class, gender, ethnic and racial identities. Historians of dance and theater are investigating the broader historical contexts for the art of dance as well as examining popular culture forms. Feminist theory, gay studies and queer theory, and studies of race and colonialism have focused on the body as a locus of inquiry, and scholars, particularly in performance studies, have found dance to be an important arena for examining the cultural meanings of the body.' These two books by Jacqui Malone and Brenda Dixon Gottschild illustrate the value dance has for understanding the creolized nature of culture in the United States and the importance of Africanist and African aesthetics in American culture. Because each author approaches this subject in very different ways, these two books suggest the possibilities that dance promises for cultural studies.
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