Don't Act, Just Dance
Subtitle: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780813565262
Subjects: Dance, united states; Performing arts; Popular culture, united states
Description: "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"--