Dance, Modernity and Culture
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Dance, Modernity and Culture

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Dance, Modernity and Culture

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
9781134881826
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. 1: FORMULATING A SOCIOLOGY OF DANCE
  7. 2: THEATRICAL DANCE IN AMERICA FROM THE EIGHTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  8. 3: TRANSITIONS
  9. 4: BEGINNINGS: DANCE AND THE PROCESSES OF CULTURAL REPRODUCTION
  10. 5: ICONOCLASTS FROM DENISHAWN
  11. 6: DANCE, MODERNITY AND CULTURE
  12. 7: SHIFTING HORIZONS
  13. 8: CONCEPTUAL AMERICANISM, MODERNISM AND UNIVERSALISM IN MUSIC AND DANCE
  14. 9: APPALACHIAN SPRING
  15. 10: CONCLUSION
  16. APPENDIX
  17. BIBLIOGRAPHY