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