Dancing the World Smaller Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America

By:

Kowal, Rebekah J [auth]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Oxford University Press 2020Description: 1 electronic resource (296 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780190265311
9780190265328
9780190265342
9780190265359
oso/9780190265311.001.0001

Subject(s):

Dance & other performing arts
Performing arts, dance, ballet, modern dance, world dance, dance, globalism, internationalism, modernism, ethnic, ethnologic, New York City, 1940s, mid-century, mid-twentieth century

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Summary: This book examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to reconcile the nation's new role as a global superpower. In dance as in cultural politics, Americans labored over how to realize diversity while honoring difference and manage dueling impulses toward globalism, on the one hand, and isolationism, on the other.

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This book examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to reconcile the nation's new role as a global superpower. In dance as in cultural politics, Americans labored over how to realize diversity while honoring difference and manage dueling impulses toward globalism, on the one hand, and isolationism, on the other.