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...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.