02420nam 2200613 a 450 991045687300332120200520144314.01-283-10976-X97866131097670-8195-7107-5(CKB)2550000000035133(EBL)805032(OCoLC)726747553(SSID)ssj0000523254(PQKBManifestationID)11341022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523254(PQKBWorkID)10539478(PQKB)11744018(MiAaPQ)EBC805032(MdBmJHUP)muse9826(Au-PeEL)EBL805032(CaPaEBR)ebr10468409(CaONFJC)MIL310976(EXLCZ)99255000000003513320091203d2010 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrHow to do things with dance[electronic resource] performing change in postwar America /Rebekah J. KowalMiddletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Pressc20101 online resource (341 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8195-6898-8 0-8195-6897-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Modern Dance and the Cultural Turn to Action; [ 1 ] Setting the Stage: Modern Dance Universalism and the Culture of Containment; [ 2 ] Precursors to Action: Martha Graham and José Limón; [ 3 ] Action Is Ordinary: Anna Sokolow; [ 4 ] Action Is Effective: Pearl Primus; [ 5 ] Action Is Finding Subjectivity: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor; [ 6 ] The Uses of Action 1: Talley Beatty, Katherine Dunham, and Donald McKayle; [ 7 ] The Uses of Action 2: Anna Halprin; Notes; References; Index;How American modern dance contributed to aesthetic and social change in the 1950'sModern danceSocial aspectsPostmodernismUnited StatesHistory1945-Electronic books.Modern danceSocial aspects.Postmodernism.792.8Kowal Rebekah J944116MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456873003321How to do things with dance2131130UNINA