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Rethinking dance history : a reader

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

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Additional authors
  1. Carter, Alexandra.
  2. Hammergren, Lena.
  3. Thomas, Helen, 1947-
  4. Roebuck, Chris.
  5. Chazin-Bennahum, Judith.
  6. Tranders, Cara.
  7. Tomko, Linda J.
  8. Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
  9. Kant, Marion.
  10. Nicholas, Larraine.
  11. Genné, Beth.
  12. Chatterjea, Ananya.
  13. Lepecki, André.
Description
  1. x, 196 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Academic writing
  2. Odissi dance
  3. Tranders, Cara
  4. Bourne, Matthew, 1960-
  5. Dunham, Katherine
  6. Homosexuality and dance
  7. Dance > History
Contents
  1. 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
  1. *MGRL 04-3559
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Rethinking dance history : a reader / edited by Alexandra Carter.
Imprint
  1. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  1. Table of contents
Added author
  1. Carter, Alexandra.
  2. Hammergren, Lena.
  3. Thomas, Helen, 1947-
  4. Roebuck, Chris.
  5. Chazin-Bennahum, Judith.
  6. Tranders, Cara.
  7. Tomko, Linda J.
  8. Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
  9. Kant, Marion.
  10. Nicholas, Larraine.
  11. Genné, Beth.
  12. Chatterjea, Ananya.
  13. Lepecki, André.
LCCN
  1. 2003013057
ISBN
  1. 0415287464 (hardback : alk. paper)
  2. 0415287472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. *MGRL 04-3559
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