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Author Tomko, Linda J.

Title Dancing class : gender, ethnicity, and social divides in American Dance, 1890-1920 / Linda J. Tomko
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999

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Description 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Bodies and Dances in Progressive-era America -- 2. Constituting Culture, Authorizing Dance -- 3. The Settlement House and the Playhouse: Cultivating Dance on New York's Lower East Side -- 4. From Henry Street to Grand Street: Transfer and Transition to the Neighborhood Playhouse -- 5. Working Women's Dancing, and Dance as Women's Work: Hull-House, Chicago Commons, and Boston's South End House -- 6. Folk Dance, Park Fetes, and Period Political Values
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-269) and index
Subject Dance -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Dance -- Sex differences.
LC no. 99018556
ISBN 025333571X cloth alkaline paper
0253213274 pa. alkaline paper