Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920

ISBN-13: 9780253213273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str.

Linda J. Tomko

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"Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies.... the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among different classes." -ChoiceFrom salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the century became a vehicle for expressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining master narratives of modern dance history, this provocative and insightful book demonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices.