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Nutcracker Nation - How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World

English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext This entertaining book offers new insights into North America's love affair with The Nutcracker. It traces the ballet's history! describes its many variegated productions and explains its allure as a way for Americans to tell a story about their communal values and themselves. "One of the first focused examinations of why this particular Russian ballet has enjoyed such success in America . . . [written] engagingly . . . [and] with great feeling."--Sarah Kaufman! "Washington Post "Engaging and readable."--Karen Campbell! "Christian Science Monitor "Lively! readable prose. . . . [Fisher's] study might even provide a momentary antidote to the cash-register mentality that infects the holidays."--Marcia B. Siegel! "Boston Phoenix Zusammenfassung This entertaining book offers new insights into North America's love affair with The Nutcracker. It traces the ballet's history! describes its many variegated productions and explains its allure as a way for Americans to tell a story about their communal values and themselves.

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Authors Jennifer Fisher, Fisher Jennifer
Publisher Yale University Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.10.2004
 
EAN 9780300105995
ISBN 978-0-300-10599-5
No. of pages 256
Dimensions 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, North America, Ballet, North America (USA and Canada)

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