Dancing in the Blood - Edward Ross Dickinson

Dancing in the Blood

Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War
Buch | Hardcover
306 Seiten
2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-19622-3 (ISBN)
93,50 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.

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).

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.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 25 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 570 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-107-19622-1 / 1107196221
ISBN-13 978-1-107-19622-3 / 9781107196223
Zustand Neuware
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