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Ballet class : an American history / Melissa R. Klapper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klapper, Melissa R., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballet--Study and teaching--United States--History.
- Ballet.
- Ballet--United States--History.
- Ballet--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of Clure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. 100 years later, ballet is everywhere. There are ballet companies large and small across the US; ballet is commonly featured in film, television, literature, and on social media; professional ballet dancers are spokespeople for all kinds of products; and, most importantly, millions of American children have taken ballet class. Beginning with the arrival of Russian dancers like Anna Pavlova, who first toured the US on the eve of WWI, this text explores the growth of ballet from an ancillary part of 19th-century musical theatre, opera, and vaudeville to the quintessential extracurricular activity it is today.
- Contents:
- Overture
- First movements.
- A (very selective) early history of ballet in America
- Ballet class
- The Russians are coming: The impact of European teachers on American ballet class
- Brought to you by the Ford Foundation: Mid-Century innovation and the dance boom
- Themes and variations.
- Up a steep and very narrow stairway: Teachers, studios, and the business of ballet
- Race and ballet in America: A troubled/troubling history
- Yes, boys take ballet class too
- Diplomates of dance: Ballet and higher education
- An art or a sport? Recitals and competitions
- Ballet bodies
- Think pink: Ballet and girl culture
- Ballet and popular culture in America.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-090871-8
- 0-19-090869-6
- OCLC:
- 1089280874
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