Title Dance, modernity, and culture : explorations in the sociology of dance / Helen Thomas

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1995

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MELB	306.484 Tho/Dma		AVAILABLE
MELB	306.484 Tho/Dma		AVAILABLE
MELB	306.484 Tho/Dma		AVAILABLE

Description x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents 1. Formulating a sociology of dance -- 2. Theatrical dance in America from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century -- 3. Transitions -- 4. Beginnings: dance and the processes of cultural reproduction -- 5. Iconoclasts from Denishawn -- 6. Dance, modernity and culture -- 7. Shifting horizons -- 8. Conceptual Americanism, modernism and universalism in music and dance -- 9. Appalachian Spring -- 10. Conclusion Analysis Dancing Sociology United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Dance -- Sociological aspects. Modern dance -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Modern dance -- Social aspects. LC no. 94037061 ISBN 0415087937 0415087945 (paperback)

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