The abstract for an upcoming article and Dirk Vom Lehn will soon be released from the R&R cycle of the pandemic year has stopped. Bill available if you are willing to give feedback!

Abstract

While dance has often appeared in sociological theory, there are relatively few empirical studies that explore social practices by which people learn to dance together. This card takes as its starting point in the way that the partner’s dance often appears as a metaphor to show theories about social order and interaction. We examine Corpus of video data collected as part of a day workshop and explore how novice dancers learn to perform some of the basic steps of social dance in time with their partner and with the rhythmic environment. The analysis shows how dancers use rhythm, bodies, language and other resources to organize their social interactions and show how conversation ethnometology and analysis provide a critical point of view for examining sociological theories about the body-social relationship.

Keywords: ethnometology, conversation analysis, multimodality, dance, culture,