Dancing in the blood : modern dance and European culture on the eve of the First World War / Edward...
Dancing in the blood : modern dance and European culture on the eve of the First World War / Edward...
Dancing in the blood : modern dance and European culture on the eve of the First World War / Edward Ross Dickinson, University of California at Davis.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/4825
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: modern dance and the birth of the twentieth century -- 1. Modern dance and the business of popular culture -- 2. Art, women, liberation -- 3. Blood and make-believe: race, identity, and performance -- 4. Embodied revelation: dance, religion, and knowledge -- 5. Legacies: dance as profe...
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"This is a remarkable account of the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European cultural life in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis, sufficiently ubiquitous and high-profile to spark media storms, parliamentary debates, and exasperated denunc...
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Dancing in the blood : modern dance and European culture on the eve of the First World War / Edward Ross Dickinson, University of California at Davis.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/4825
Record Identifier
74VKVWZKk5jO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVWZKk5jO
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ISBN
1316647218 (paperback)
9781107196223 (hardcover)
1107196221 (hardcover)
9781316647219 (paperback)
DDC
792.80940904
MMS ID
991024135481002626
