Catherine Gunther Kodat

Don't Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on fresh archival material, Catherine Gunther Kodat questions several commonly-held beliefs about the purpose and meaning of modernist cultural productions during the Cold War. Rather than read the dance through a received understanding of Cold War culture, Don’t Act, Just Dance reads Cold War culture through the dance, and in doing so establishes a new understanding of the politics of modernism in the arts of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780813565262
• ISBN-10: 081356526X
• Artikelnr.: 40844657

Autorenporträt

Catherine Gunther Kodat

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I          Rethinking Cold War Culture
1          Combat Cultural
2          History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA)
3          Theory: Adorno and Rancière (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender,
Sexuality)
4          Dancing: “Don’t Act, Just Dance”
Part II         Rereading Cold War Culture
5          Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, “Persia”
6          Spartacus
7          From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of
Nixon in China
Notes
Bibliography
Index