Dance, modernity and culture : Explorations in the sociology of dance / Helen Thomas

By:

Thomas, Helen

Series: Dance/Performance/SociologyPublication details: London : Routledge, 1995Description: X, 206 pISBN:

0415087945

Summary: In Dance, Modernity and Culture, Helen Thomas provides an original, interdisciplinary approach to the study of dance. By examining the development of modern dance in the USA during the 1920s and 1930s she develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. In applying her approach to the works of St Denis, Ted Shawn and Martha Graham, among others, she relates the emergence of modern dance to contemporaneous artistic developments, and locates dance within a wider social and economic context. Thus, she draws attention to the importance of popular culture in the development of modern dance, music and painting, and the crucial role women played in establishing dance as an art form. 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 all those interested in the performing arts. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC	ED07 Tho 95	1	Available		1900033806

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 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 / Loïe Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St Denis -- 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 -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index

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