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How to do things with dance : performing change in postwar America
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- Creator
- Rebekah J. Kowal
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786613109767, 0819571075, 9780819571076, 9780819568984, 6613109762, 0819568988, 128310976X, 9780819568977, 081956897X
- OCLC
- ocn474870207, ocn726747553
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311) and index.
- Modern Dance and the Cultural Turn to Action -- Setting the Stage : Modern Dance Universalism and the Culture of Containment -- Precursors to Action / Martha Graham, Jose Limon -- Action is Ordinary / Anna Sokolow -- Action is Effective / Pearl Primus -- Action is Finding Subjectivity / Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor -- The Uses of Action 1 / Talley Beatty, Katherine Dunham, Donald McKayle -- The Uses of Action 2 / Anna Halprin
Subjects
- Modern dance -- Social aspects.
- Postmodernism.
- United States -- History -- 1945-
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