Dancing the World Smaller
Author | : Rebekah J. Kowal |
Publisher | : Oxford Studies in Dance Theory |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190265311 |
ISBN-13 | : 0190265310 |
Rating | : 4/5 (310 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Dancing the World Smaller by : Rebekah J. Kowal
Download or read book Dancing the World Smaller written by Rebekah J. Kowal and published by Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. This book was released on 2020 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing the World Smaller 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 realize diversity while honoring difference.