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A game for dancers : performing modernism in the postwar years, 1945-1960 / Gay Morris.
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Morris, Gay, 1940-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2006.
Description
xxviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Available Online
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EBSCOhost International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
GV1619 .M67 2006
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Modern dance
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Summary note
Examines the difficulties American modern dancers faced as the Cold War took hold and the genre became institutionalised after its pioneering phase. It draws on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to explore the interconnections between art and politics while paying close attention to modern dance's ambivalent relationship to the market. At the heart of the book is an inquiry into modernism itself, and how dancers struggled to meet modernist demands for abstraction and autonomy.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-242) and index.
Contents
The trouble with modern dance
Ballet's challenge
Modernist theory : John Martin, Edwin Denby, John Cage
Embodying community
African-American vanguardism : 1940s
African-American vanguardism : 1950s
Objectivism's consonance.
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ISBN
081956804X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0819568058 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780819568045
9780819568052
LCCN
2006000181
OCLC
63187384
International Article Number
9780819568045
9780819568052
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