Dance, Modernity and Culture

Name: Dance, Modernity and Culture
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ISBN: 9780415087933

ISBN-10: 0415087937

ISBN-13: 9780415087933

Edition: 1995

Authors: Helen Thomas

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Dance, modernity and culture explores an area of art practice that has long been marginalised by sociologists of art. As an important contribution to dance scholarship this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the performing arts.

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/22/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Helen Thomas is Director of Doctoral Programmes at the University of the Arts, London, UK.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements



Formulating a sociology of dance



Theatrical dance in America from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century



Transitions



Beginnings: dance and the processes of cultural reproduction



Iconoclasts from Denishawn



Dance, modernity and culture



Shifting horizons



Conceptual Americanism, modernism and universalism in music and dance



Appalachian Spring



Conclusion


Appendix


Bibliography


Name index


Subject index