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Perspectives on American Dance - The Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Perspectives on American Dance - The Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Dancing embodies cultural history and beliefs, and each dance
carries with it features of the place where it originated.
Influenced by different social, political, and environmental
circumstances, dances change and adapt. American dance evolved in
large part through combinations of multiple styles and forms that
arrived with each new group of immigrants. Perspectives on American
Dance is the first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus
exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of
American culture. This volume and its companion show how social
experience, courtship, sexualities, and other aspects of life in
America are translated through dancing into spatial patterns,
gestures, and partner relationships.In this volume of Perspectives
on American Dance, the contributors explore a variety of subjects:
white businessmen in Prescott, Arizona, who created a 'Smoki tribe'
that performed 'authentic' Hopi dances for over seventy years;
swing dancing by Japanese American teens in World War II internment
camps; African American jazz dancing in the work of ballet
choreographer Ruth Page; dancing in early Hollywood movie musicals;
how critics identified 'American' qualities in the dancing of
ballerina Nana Gollner; the politics of dancing with the American
flag; English Country Dance as translated into American
communities; Bob Fosse's sociopolitical choreography; and early
break dancing as Latino political protest. The accessible essays
use a combination of movement analysis, thematic interpretation,
and historical context to convey the vitality and variety of
American dance. They offer new insights on American dance practices
while simultaneously illustrating how dancing functions as an
essential template for American culture and identity.
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