NASSS 2018 Conference - Vancouver

Every so often the disabled body becomes front and centre in the meeting of movement and music; and although a rarity in mainstream culture it provides academics in the area of critical (dis)ability studies an exciting opportunity to (re)think, (re)frame and (re)conceptualise our sociological understanding of ability.  However, this meeting of movement and music is not adequately explored within disability sports community, with many scholars fixating their gaze on the micro-meanings of the bodily performance, as opposed to macro-meanings of the corporeal within the context.  How do we derive further meaning about (dis)ability when music and physical movement converge? We invite papers that seek to develop novel explorations of what, when, how and why the meeting of music and movement can transcend current debates in disability sport studies.