Dance, modernity, and culture : explorations in the sociology of dance /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Helen, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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.