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

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 0813565286
ISBN: 9780813565286
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:	Machine generated contents note: PrefacePart I Rethinking Cold War Culture1 Combat Cultural2 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 Culture5 Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, "Persia"6 Spartacus7 From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in ChinaNotesBibliographyIndex.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.