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Title:

Of, by, and for the people : dancing on the Left in the 1930s / edited by Lynn Garafola ; with contributions by Russell Gold [and others] ; preface by Barbara Melosh.

Publisher:

published by the Society of Dance History Scholars at A-R Editions,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

vii, 113 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Dance--Political aspects--United States.
Dance--New York--New York--20th century.
Dance--United States--20th century.

Other Authors:

Garafola, Lynn. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88207168
Society of Dance History Scholars.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages 104-107) and index. The first four articles were originally presented as papers at "Of, by, and for the people", a joint conference of the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars held in New York, June 1993.

Contents:

Dancing Red / Ellen Graff -- "The people" / Stacey Prickett -- African American dance and sociological positivism during the 1930s / J.O. Perpener -- "Significant historical events, thrilling dance sequences" : Communist Party pageants in New York, 1937 / Barbara Stratyner -- Guilty of syncopation, joy, and animation : the closing of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom / Russell Gold -- Reviewing on the Left : the dance criticism of Edna Ocko / selected and introduced by Stacey Prickett.

Series:

Studies in dance history, 1043-7952 ; v. 5, no. 1 (spring 1994)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)32061224

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)