Title Don't act, just dance : the metapolitics of cold war culture / Catherine Gunther Kodat

Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Rethinking Cold War Culture -- 1. Combat Cultural -- 2. History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA) -- 3. Theory: Adorno and Rancière (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality) -- 4. Dancing: "Don't Act, Just Dance" -- Part II. Rereading Cold War Culture -- 5. Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, "Persia" -- 6. Spartacus -- 7. From Art As Diplomacy to Diplomacy As Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in China -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author Summary "Drawing on fresh archival material, Catherine Gunther Kodat questions several commonly held beliefs about the purpose and meaning of modernist cultural productions during the Cold War. Rather than read the dance through a received understanding of Cold War culture, Don't Act, Just Dance reads Cold War culture through the dance, and in doing so establishes a new understanding of the politics of modernism in the arts of the period"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Machine generated contents note: PrefacePart I Rethinking Cold War Culture1 Combat Cultural2 History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA)3 Theory: Adorno and Ranciere (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality)4 Dancing: "Don't Act, Just Dance"Part II Rereading Cold War Culture5 Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, "Persia"6 Spartacus7 From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in ChinaNotesBibliographyIndex Print version record Subject Dance -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century Cultural diplomacy -- United States -- History -- 20th century Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century Cold War -- Influence. Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States Politics and culture -- United States PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. Cultural diplomacy Dance -- Political aspects Performing arts Politics and culture Popular culture Social aspects War -- Influence Moderne Ost-West-Konflikt Tanz United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813565286 0813565286

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