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Dancing in the Blood - Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War (Hardcover)
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Dancing in the Blood - Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War (Hardcover)
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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 denunciations even from progressive art critics. He
shows how modern dance spoke in multiple registers - as religious
and as scientific; as redemptively chaste and scandalously sensual;
as elitist and popular. He reveals the connections between modern
dance and changing gender relations and family dynamics,
imperialism, racism, and cultural exchanges with the wider
non-European world, and new conceptions of selfhood. Ultimately the
book finds in these complex and often contradictory connections a
new way of understanding the power of modernism and modernity and
their capacity to revolutionize and transform the modern world in
the momentous, creative, violent middle decades of the twentieth
century.
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