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Don't act, just dance : the metapolitics of cold war culture /

"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 r...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kodat, Catherine Gunther (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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
  • About the Author