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Perspectives on American dance : the twentieth century / edited by Jennifer Atkins, Sally R. Sommer, and Tricia Henry Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--United States--History.
- Dance.
- Ballet.
- Dance--Social aspects.
- United States.
- History.
- Dance--Social aspects--United States.
- Modern dance--United States.
- Modern dance.
- Ballet--United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 348 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
- Summary:
- The editors of this anthology analyze a broad range of themes and dance styles in order to examine how dance has helped to shape American identity. This volume focuses on dance and its social, cultural, and political constructs.
- Contents:
- Sampling moves
- Dancing identity: the annual smoki "ceremonial dances" of Prescott, Arizona / Lynette Russell
- Jitterbuggers, sugar plums, and a geisha: dancing nexus in Japanese American Incarceration Facilities of World War II / Marta Robertson
- Doppelg¿nger with a difference: Ruth Page's debt (and dedication) to African American jazz / Joellen Meglin
- Alonzo King Lines Ballet: counterpoints / Jill Nunes Jensen
- Broadcasting moves
- Flirting with terpsichore: show dancing in 1930s Hollywood musicals / Adrienne McLean
- Sailors in the city: dance, nationalism, and cultural imperialism in Anchors Aweigh and on the town / Kathaleen Boche
- "Just kids": youth, community, and race in televised teen dance programs of the 1950s / Julie Malnig
- On the world's stage: Nana Gollner, an American classical ballerina and the rhetoric of ballet nationalism, 1930-1950 / Karen Eliot
- Critiquing moves
- Flagging the body, dancing the nation: the bodies politic of Isadora Duncan and Yvonne Rainer / Sara Wolf
- Staging stars and stripes: (re)choreographing the American flag / Lizzie Leopold
- Gender and the dancing body in English country dance / Daniel Walkowitz
- Cabaret: a study of fascism, sexuality, and politics / Dara Milovanovic
- Self-determination and public space: the performative politics of breaking / Cutler Edwards.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813054933
- 0813054931
- OCLC:
- 985966803
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