A game for dancers : performing modernism in the postwar years, 1945-1960 / Gay Morris.

Author
Morris, Gay, 1940- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2006.
Description
xxviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 081956804X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0819568058 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780819568045
    • 9780819568052
    LCCN
    2006000181
    OCLC
    63187384
    International Article Number
    • 9780819568045
    • 9780819568052
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