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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825610003321

Autore

Prevots Naima <1935->

Titolo

Dance for export : cultural diplomacy and the Cold War / / Naima Prevots ; introduction by Eric Foner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Middletown, Conn.] : , : Wesleyan University Press

Hanover, N.H. : , : University Press of New England, , 1998

ISBN

1-283-40997-6

9786613409973

0-8195-7336-1

0-585-37080-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in dance history

Altri autori (Persone)

FonerEric <1943->

Disciplina

792.8/09

Soggetti

Dance - Political aspects - United States - History

Cultural relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First Wesleyan paperback 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; Eisenhower's Fund; Starting Out; ANTA, the Dance Panel, and Martha Graham; The Avant-Garde Conundrum; Ballet and Soviet-American Exchange; African American Artists; How Broad a Spectrum?; On the Home Front; Notes; Members of the ANTA Dance Panel; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A little-known episode in the history of dance that illuminates the broader subject of cultural policy during the Cold War era.