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04414aam a2200445 i 4500 001 66B295B274A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 191008s2020 nyuabf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2019035357 020 $a 0190610360 020 $a 9780190610364 035 $a (OCoLC)1112421972 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d SLV $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GV1785 G7 P55 2020 100 1 $a Phillips, Victoria $e author. 245 10 $a Martha Graham's Cold War : $b the dance of American diplomacy / $c Victoria Phillips. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 458 pages, 24 pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 500 $a Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013, titled Strange commodity of cultural exchange : Martha Graham and the State Department on tour, 1955-1987. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-429) and index. 505 0 $a How Martha Graham became a cultural ambassador : modernist on the frontier -- "The new home of men" : modern Americana goes to Asia and the Middle East -- "Dedicated to freedom" : Martha Graham in Berlin, 1957 -- The aging of a star in Camelot : Israel, Europe, and "behind the Iron Curtain," 1962 -- Triumphing over "exhaustion," 1963-1974 -- "Forever modern" : from ashes to ambassador in Asia, 1974 -- "Grahamized and Americanized" : the defector joins the first lady on the global stage -- "And Martha knew how to play that" : from deÌtente to disco in Jimmy Carter's Middle East, 1979 -- Dancing along the wall : Graham, Reagan, and the reunification of Berlin, 1987-1989. 520 $a ""I am not a propagandist," declared the matriarch of American modern dance Martha Graham while on her State Department funded-tour in 1955. Graham's claim inspires questions: the United States government exported Graham and her company internationally to over twenty-seven countries in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Near and Far East, and Russia representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, and planned under George H.W. Bush. Although in the diplomatic field, she was titled "The Picasso of modern dance," and "Forever Modern" in later years, Graham proclaimed, "I am not a modernist." During the Cold War, the reconfigured history of modernism as apolitical in its expression of "the heart and soul of mankind," suited political needs abroad. In addition, she declared, "I am not a feminist," yet she intersected with politically powerful women from Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Dulles, sister of Eisenhower's Dulles brothers in the State Department and CIA, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Betty Ford, and political matriarch Barbara Bush. While bringing religious characters on the frontier and biblical characters to the stage in a battle against the atheist communists, Graham explained, "I am not a missionary." Her work promoted the United States as modern, culturally sophisticated, racially and culturally integrated. To her abstract and mythic works, she added the trope of the American frontier. With her tours and Cold War modernism, Graham demonstrates the power of the individual, immigrants, republicanism, and, ultimately freedom from walls and metaphorical fences with cultural diplomacy with the unfettered language of movement and dance"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Graham, Martha $x Travel. 600 10 $a Graham, Martha $x Political and social views. 650 0 $a Modern dance $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cultural diplomacy $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cold War $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Politics and culture $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1945-1989. 600 17 $a Graham, Martha. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00036419 611 27 $a Cold War (1945-1989) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01754978 700 1 $a Phillips, Victoria. $t Strange commodity of cultural exchange. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Victoria, Phillips. $t Martha Graham's Cold War. $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] $z 9780190610388 $w (DLC) 2019035358 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220706014425.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=66B295B274A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search