Dancing class
Subtitle: gender, ethnicity, and social divides in American Dance, 1890-1920
By: Linda J. Tomko
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Dance; Sex differences; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[221]-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bodies and dances in Progressive-era America; title: Constituting culture, authorizing dance; title: The settlement house and the playhouse: cultivating dance on New York's Lower East Side; title: From Henry Street to Grand Street: transfer and transition to the neighborhood playhouse; title: Working women's dancing, and dance as women's work: Hull-House, Chicago Commons, and Boston's South End House; title: Folk dance, park fetes, and period political values.