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Author Morris, Gay, 1940-

Title A game for dancers : performing modernism in the postwar years, 1945-1960 / Gay Morris
Published Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description xxviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents The trouble with modern dance -- Ballet's challenge -- Modernist theory : John Martin, Edwin Denby, John Cage -- Embodying community -- African-American vanguardism : 1940s -- African-American vanguardism : 1950s -- Objectivism's consonance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-242) and index
Subject Modern dance -- History.
Modern dance -- United States -- History.
LC no. 2006000181
ISBN 081956804X (cloth : alk. paper)
0819568058 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles A game for dancers : performing modernism in the postwar years, nineteen forty five to nineteen sixty