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Risk, Failure, Play : What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training.

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Risk, Failure, Play takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through fight sport training. It intertwines personal experience and scholarly research, producing powerful reflections on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, and identity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Shea, Janet, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2018.
Subjects:
Martial arts > Psychological aspects.
Martial arts > Social aspects.
Dance.
Genres & Styles.
MUSIC.
PERFORMING ARTS.
Modern.
Martial Arts & Self-Defense.
SPORTS & RECREATION.
Martial arts > Psychological aspects
Martial arts > Social aspects
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Risk, Failure, Play takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through fight sport training. It intertwines personal experience and scholarly research, producing powerful reflections on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, and identity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:9780190871550
0190871555
9780190871567
0190871563