TY - BOOK AU - Dickinson,Edward Ross TI - Dancing in the blood: modern dance and European culture on the eve of the first World War SN - 9781107196223 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Dansa contemporània KW - Aspectes socials KW - Europa KW - Història KW - S. XX KW - Civilització KW - Vida social i costums N1 - Reproducció de fotografies de Tòrtola València del fons del Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques (MAE); Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex; Conté: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: modern dance and the birth of the twentieth century; 1. Modern dance and the business of popular culture; 2. Art, women, liberation; 3. Blood and make believe: race, identity, and performance; 4. Embodied revelation: dance, religion, and knowledge; 5. Legacies: dance as profession, spectacle, therapy, politics; Conclusion: coherent contradictions in modernism and modernity N2 - "This is a remarkable account of the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European cultural life in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis, sufficiently ubiquitous and high-profile to spark media storms, parliamentary debates, and exasperated denunciations even from progressive art critics. He shows how modern dance spoke in multiple registers - as religious and as scientific; as redemptively chaste and scandalously sensual; as elitist and popular. He reveals the connections between modern dance and changing gender relations and family dynamics, imperialism, racism, and cultural exchanges with the wider non-European world, and new conceptions of selfhood. Ultimately the book finds in these complex and often contradictory connections a new way of understanding the power of modernism and modernity and their capacity to revolutionize and transform the modern world in the momentous, creative, violent middle decades of the twentieth century"-- ER -