Dancing in the Blood - Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War

Informationen zum Autor Edward Ross Dickinson is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of California, Davis. His areas of research and expertise include the history of imperialism, terrorism, sexuality and gender, crime, social policy, social reform, women's movements, modern dance, and racial theory. He is the author of a number of books including Sex, Freedom, and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914 (Cambridge, 2014). Klappentext This book explores the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European culture in the early twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The book explores the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European culture in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis and reveals the connections between dance! politics! culture! religion! the arts! psychology! entertainment! and selfhood. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 profession, spectacle, therapy, politics; Conclusion: coherent contradictions in modernism and modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Ross Dickinson, Edward Ross (University of California Dickinson, Dickinson Edward Ross
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107196223
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19622-3
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999