Helen Thomas

Dance, Modernity and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applies her approach to, among others, St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134881826
• Artikelnr.: 49984497

Autorenporträt

Helen Thomas

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Formulating a sociology of dance
2. Theatrical dance in America from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century
3. Transitions
4. Beginnings: dance and the processes of cultural reproduction
5. Iconoclasts from Denishawn
6. Dance
modernity and culture
7. Shifting horizons
8. Conceptual Americanism
modernism and universalism in music and dance
9. Appalachian Spring
10. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index