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Rethinking dance history : a reader

Title
Rethinking dance history : a reader / edited by Alexandra Carter.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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  • Carter, Alexandra.
  • Hammergren, Lena.
  • Thomas, Helen, 1947-
  • Roebuck, Chris.
  • Chazin-Bennahum, Judith.
  • Tranders, Cara.
  • Tomko, Linda J.
  • Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
  • Kant, Marion.
  • Nicholas, Larraine.
  • Genné, Beth.
  • Chatterjea, Ananya.
  • Lepecki, André.
Description
x, 196 p.; 24 cm.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Making history: a general introduction / Alexandra Carter -- Destabilising the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / Alexandra Carter -- Many sources, many voices / Lena Hammergren -- Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / Helen Thomas -- 'Queering' the king: a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance / Chris Roebuck -- A longing for perfection: neoclassic fashion and ballet / Judith Chazin-Bennahum -- Cara Tranders's reveries: the autobiography of Cara Tranders, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-1899 / Cara Tranders -- Considering causation and conditions of possibility: practitioners and patrons of New Dance in progressive-era America / Linda J. Tomko -- Katherine Dunham's floating island of negritude: the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in London and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s / Ramsay Burt -- German dance and modernity: don't mention the Nazis / Marion Kant -- Dancing in the margins? British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s / Larraine Nicholas -- "Dancin' in the street": street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / Beth Genné -- Contestations: constructing a historical narrative for Odissi / Ananya Chatterjee -- Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan lake / Alastair Macaulay -- Concept and presence: the contemporary European dance scene / André Lepecki.
Call Number
*MGRL 04-3559
ISBN
  • 0415287464 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415287472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003013057
OCLC
  • 52412115
  • NYPY05-B10001
Title
Rethinking dance history : a reader / edited by Alexandra Carter.
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author
Carter, Alexandra.
Hammergren, Lena.
Thomas, Helen, 1947-
Roebuck, Chris.
Chazin-Bennahum, Judith.
Tranders, Cara.
Tomko, Linda J.
Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
Kant, Marion.
Nicholas, Larraine.
Genné, Beth.
Chatterjea, Ananya.
Lepecki, André.
Research Call Number
*MGRL 04-3559
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