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A game for dancers: performing modernism in the postwar years, 1945 - 1960.
Author: Morris, Gay
Published: 2006
A game for dancers examines the difficulties American modern dancers faced as the Cold War took hold and the genre became institutionalised after its pioneering phase. It draws on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to explore the interconnections between art and politics while paying close attention to modern dance's ambivalent relationship to the market. At the heart of the book is an inquiry into modernism itself, and how dancers struggled to meet modernist demands for abstraction and autonomy.
A game for dancers: performing modernism in the postwar years, 1945 - 1960.