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04778aam a2200577 i 4500 001 C5279EFC586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 190221t20202020nyua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019002306 020 $a 0190265329 020 $a 9780190265328 020 $a 0190265310 020 $a 9780190265311 035 $a (OCoLC)1097959208 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d MNG $d NYP $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a GV1624.5.N4 $b K68 2019 082 00 $a 792.809747/1 $2 23 100 1 $a Kowal, Rebekah J., $e author. 245 10 $a Dancing the world smaller : $b staging globalism in mid-century America / $c Rebekah J. Kowal. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 282 pages : $b illustrations : $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Oxford studies in dance theory 520 $a "Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. During and after the Second World War, modern dance and ballet thrived in New York City, a fertile cosmopolitan environment in which dance was celebrated as an emblem of American artistic and cultural dominance. In the ensuing Cold War years, American choreographers and companies were among those the U.S. government sent abroad to serve as ambassadors of American cultural values and to extend the nation's geo-political reach. Less-known is that international dance performance, or what was then-called 'ethnic' or 'ethnologic' dance, enjoyed strong support among audiences in the city and across the nation as well. Produced in non-traditional dance venues, such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Ethnologic Dance Center, and Carnegie Hall, these performances elevated dance as an intercultural bridge across human differences and dance artists as transcultural interlocutors. Dancing the World Smaller draws on extensive archival resources, as well as critical and historical studies of race and ethnicity in the U.S., to uncover a hidden history of globalism in American dance and to see artists such as La Meri, Ruth St. Denis, Asadata Dafora, Pearl Primus, JoseÌ LimoÌn, Ram Gopal, and Charles Weidman in new light. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to reconcile the nation's new role as a global superpower. In dance as in cultural politics, Americans labored over how to realize diversity while honoring difference and manage dueling impulses toward globalism, on the one hand, and isolationism, on the other"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Staging globalism in mid-century America -- Staging integration : around the world with dance and song at the American Museum of Natural History -- Staging ethnologic dance : La Meri, whiteness, and the problems of cross-ethnic embodiment -- Staging diaspora : Asadata Dafora and black cultural diplomacy -- Staging multiculturalism/staging containment : paradoxes of mid-century globalism. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Dance $x History $z New York $z New York $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Folk dancing $x History $z New York $z New York $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Dancers $x History $z New York $z New York $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Dance and globalization $z New York $z New York $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cultural diplomacy $z New York $z New York $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Multiculturalism $z New York $z New York $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Cultural diplomacy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01893393 650 7 $a Dance and globalization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01920503 650 7 $a Dance $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00887439 650 7 $a Dancers $x Political activity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00887593 650 7 $a Ethnic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916005 650 7 $a Folk dancing $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00928649 650 7 $a Multiculturalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01028836 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $x History $x History $y 20th century. 651 7 $a New York (State) $z New York. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204333 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kowal, Rebekah J. $t Dancing the world smaller. $d New York : Oxford University Press, [2019] $z 9780190265335 $w (DLC) 2019019506 830 0 $a Oxford studies in dance theory. 941 $a 2 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100108.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317020804.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C5279EFC586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search