Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies.... the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes; crowded urban living; massive immigration; and interchange and repositioning among different classes. mdash;ChoiceFrom salons to dance halls to settlement houses; new dance practices at the turn of the century became a vehicle for expressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining master narratives of modern dance history; this provocative and insightful book demonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices.
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