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Dance, Modernity and Culture Helen Thomas (University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion, UK)

Dance, Modernity and Culture By Helen Thomas (University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion, UK)

Dance, Modernity and Culture by Helen Thomas (University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion, UK)


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Summary

By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applies her approach to, among others, St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham.

Dance, Modernity and Culture Summary

Dance, Modernity and Culture by Helen Thomas (University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion, UK)

By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applies her approach to, among others, St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham.

About Helen Thomas (University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion, UK)

Helen Thomas

Table of Contents

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, 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

Additional information

NPB9780415087933
9780415087933
0415087937
Dance, Modernity and Culture by Helen Thomas (University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion, UK)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1995-10-19
232
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