Dance, Modernity and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415087933 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 232 str.

Helen Thomas;Thomas Helen

Opis

In this text, Helen Thomas provides an interdiscplinary, approach to the study of dance. By examining the development of modern dance in the USA during the inter-war period, she develops a framework for analyzing dance from a sociological perspective. In applying her approach to the work of St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham, among others, she relates the emergence of modern dance to contemporaneous artistic developments, and locates dance within a wider social and economic context. Thus, she draws attention to the importance of popular culture in the development of modern dance, music and painting, and the crucial role women played in establishing dance as an art form. By way of exemplification, she looks at the work of Yvonne Rainer in order to demonstrate how this sociological approach might be applied to a post-modern work.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Helen Thomas