How to do things with dance : performing change in postwar America /

How to do things with dance : performing change in postwar America /

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Author / Creator:	Kowal, Rebekah J., author.
Imprint:	Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Modern dance -- Social aspects. Postmodernism. Modern dance -- Social aspects. Postmodernism. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11261927

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ISBN:	9780819571076 0819571075 9780819568977 081956897X 9780819568984 0819568988 9786613109767 6613109762
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	In postwar America, any assertion of difference from the mainstream anticommunist culture carried professional and personal risks. For this reason, modern dance artists left much of what they thought unsaid. Instead they expressed themselves in movement. How To Do Things with Dance positions modern dance as a vital critical discourse, and suggests that dances of the late 1940s and the 1950s can be seen as compelling agents of social change. Concentrating on choreographers whose artistic work conceived dance in terms of action ... Show moreRebekah J. Kowal shows how specific choreographic projects demonstrated increasing awareness of the stage as a penetrable space, one on which socially suspect or marginalized modes of being could be performed with relative impunity and exerted in the real world. Artists covered include Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Donald McKayle, Talley Beatty, and Anna Halprin.
Other form:	Print version: Kowal, Rebekah J. How to do things with dance. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2010 9780819568977

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Summary:	How American modern dance contributed to aesthetic and social change in the 1950s <br> <br> Winner of the CORD Outstanding Publication Award (2012) <br> <br> In postwar America, any assertion of difference from the mainstream anticommunist culture carried professional and personal risks. For this reason, modern dance artists left much of what they thought unsaid. Instead they expressed themselves in movement. How To Do Things with Dance positions modern dance as a vital critical discourse, and suggests that dances of the late 1940s and the 1950s can be seen as compelling agents of social change. Concentrating on choreographers whose artistic work conceived dance in terms of action, Rebekah J. Kowal shows how specific choreographic projects demonstrated increasing awareness of the stage as a penetrable space, one on which socially suspect or marginalized modes of being could be performed with relative impunity and exerted in the real world. Artists covered include Martha Graham, José Limón, Anna Sokolow, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Donald McKayle, Talley Beatty, and Anna Halprin.<br> <br> Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311) and index.
ISBN:	9780819571076 0819571075 9780819568977 081956897X 9780819568984 0819568988 9786613109767 6613109762