 | Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920 Subjects: Dance -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Dance -- Sex differences; This look at Progressive-era women and innovative cultural practices "blazes a new trail in dance scholarship" ( Choice , Outstanding Academic Book of the Year). From salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the twentieth century became a vehicle for expressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining master narratives of modern dance history, this provocative and insightful book demonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices."Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies . . . the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among different classes." -- Choice Linda J. Tomko is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California, Riverside. She is President of the Society of Dance History Scholars and Co-Director of the annual Stanford University Summer Workshop in Baroque Dance. In 1997 she won the Gertrude Lippincott Prize, awarded by SDHS, for her article "Fete Accompli," published in Corporealities. |
