TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Alexandra
TI  - Rethinking dance history: a reader 
SN  - 0415287464(hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - GV1781 .R48 2004
U1  - 792.809 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Dance
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Making history : a general introduction; Alexandra Carter --; 2; Destabilising the discipline : critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance; Alexandra Carter --; 3; Many sources, many voices; Lena Hammergren --; 4; Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice; Helen Thomas --; 5; 'Queering' the king : a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance; Chris Roebuck --; 6; A longing for perfection : neoclassic fashion and ballet; Judith Chazin-Bennahum --; 7; Cara Tranders's reveries : the autobiography of Cara Tranders, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99; Cara Tranders --; 8; Considering causation and conditions of possibility : practitioners and patrons of new dance in progressive-era America; Linda J. Tomko --; 9; 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 --; 10; German dance and modernity : don't mention the Nazis; Marion Kant --; 11; Dancing in the margins? British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s; Larraine Nicholas --; 12; "Dancin' in the street" : street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson; Beth Genne --; 13; Contestations : constructing a historical narrative for Odissi; Ananya Chatterjee --; 14; Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan Lake; Alastair Macaulay --; 15; Concept and presence : the contemporary European dance scene; Andre Lepecki
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