عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
GV1783 .K68 2010
GV1783
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K68
2010
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
081956897X (cloth : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
0819568988 (pbk. : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780819568977 (cloth : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780819568984 (pbk. : alk. paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
How to do things with dance :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
performing change in postwar America /
First Statement of Responsibility
Rebekah J. Kowal
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Middletown, Conn. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Wesleyan University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 323 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"This is a book about the history of dance modernism in the United States after World War II. It is also a cultural history of the postwar period seen through the lens of modern dance"--P. 1
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Modern Dance and the Cultural Turn to Action -- Setting the Stage : Modern Dance Universalism and the Culture of Containment -- Precursors to Action / Martha Graham, Jose Limon -- Action is Ordinary / Anna Sokolow -- Action is Effective / Pearl Primus -- Action is Finding Subjectivity / Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor -- The Uses of Action 1 / Talley Beatty, Katherine Dunham, Donald McKayle -- The Uses of Action 2 / Anna Halprin
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
""Integrating dance into U.S. social and political life, Rebekah Kowal's book demonstrates persuasively that mid-century dance initiatives contributed crucial innovations to modern dance while also vitally engaging with the tensions within the American body politic that would lead to the fights for racial and gender equality in the 1960s. Her research combines meticulous scholarship with a broad and insightful command of U.S. history."--Susan Leigh Foster, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
"Kowal convincingly argues that the most salient point of postwar American dance was not the insularity of objectivism but the engagement of action. By questioning the normative movement practices inscribed on our bodies, choreographers like Sokolow, Cunningham, and Halprin bridged method acting and the sit-ins."--Daniel Belgrad, author of Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America"--BOOK JACKET
"Kowal convincingly argues that the most salient point of postwar American dance was not the insularity of objectivism but the engagement of action. By questioning the normative movement practices inscribed on our bodies, choreographers like Sokolow, Cunningham, and Halprin bridged method acting and the sit-ins."--Daniel Belgrad, author of Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America"--BOOK JACKET
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Choreographers-- United States, Biography
Modern dance-- Social aspects
Modern dance-- United States-- History
Postmodernism
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, History, 1945-
United States, Social conditions, 1945-
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
792
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8
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
GV1783
Class number
GV1623
Class number
GV1623
Book number
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K68
2010
Book number
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K69
2010
Book number
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K69
2010
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Kowal, Rebekah J
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20120308145859.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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