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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Ranciere (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