Dance, Modernity and Culture

by Helen Thomas

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134881826
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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