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UNINA9910293134003321 |
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Autore |
Wilcox Emily <1981-> |
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Titolo |
Revolutionary Bodies : Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy / / Emily Wilcox |
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Oakland, : University of California Press, 2019 |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations (some color), map |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Choreography - China - History |
Socialism and dance - China - History |
Dance - China - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : Locating Chinese dance : bodies in place, history, and genre -- From Trinidad to Beijing : Dai Ailian and the beginnings of Chinese dance -- Experiments in form : creating dance in the early People's Republic -- Performing a socialist nation : the golden age of Chinese dance -- A revolt from within : contextualizing revolutionary ballet -- The return of Chinese dance : socialist continuity post Mao -- Inheriting the socialist legacy : Chinese dance in the twenty-first century. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Revolutionary Bodies is the first primary source-based history of concert dance in the People's Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, it analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Emily Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China's dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected |
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dance works discussed by the author"--Provided by publisher. |
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