It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Dance by Jamake Highwater
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This book presents a powerful view of the history of dance, contrasting its role in Western civilization with its significance in other cultures. Highwater - a renowned critic, author, and lecturer on art, theater, music, and dance - links the history of dance to cultural forces as diverse as Karl Marx and Elvis Presley. Beginning with the original, ritualistic, and primal forms of dance, he traces its decline into empty ceremonial forms while all along insisting that dance is a fundamentallife impulse made visible in motion - a spontaneous transformation of experience into metaphoric...
Dance by Jamake Highwater is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Dance aloud.
Dance is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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