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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrea Harris (Assistant Professor of Dance, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780199342235ISBN 10: 0199342237 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 16 November 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAndrea Harris's Making Ballet American is a remarkable tale of two men - Kirstein, the brilliant ballet entrepreneur, and Denby, the poet of dance critics - who, together and separetly, championed Balanchine's neoclassicism as the cynosure of American ballet. But the book's historical synthesis is even more gripping, focusing on how modernist artists and thinkers from all walks of American culture confronted the deep, underlying fears of the twentieth century: mass media's potential to create unthinking mobs in the guise of fascism, totalitarianism, and even unbridled capitalism. At last, a critical intellectual history of twentieth-century ballet in America - one that is particularly resonant in our time, and full of irony, as individuals initially driven by countercultural and nonconformist values erect elite institutions guaranteed to quash alternative voices! * Joellen Meglin, Dance Chronicle * In Andrea Harris' riveting account of Making Ballet American Balanchine, Kirstein, and Denby did not turn away from politics at mid-century, as we have mistakenly believed, but rather created neoclassical ballet from an alert engagement with the crises of their time. An astonishing and lucid history, revisionist scholarship at its brilliant best! -Susan Manning, Northwestern University Making Ballet American is a remarkable tale of two men-Lincoln Kirstein, the brilliant apologist for ballet, and Edwin Denby, the poet of dance critics-who, together and separately, championed George Balanchine's ballet neoclassicism as the cynosure of American ballet. But the book's historical synthesis is even more gripping, focusing on how modernist artists and thinkers from all walks of American culture confronted the deep, underlying fears of the twentieth century: mass media's potential to create unthinking mobs, in the guise of fascism, totalitarianism, and even unbridled capitalism. At last, a critical intellectual history of twentieth-century ballet in America-one that is particularly resonant in our time, and full of irony, as individuals initially driven by countercultural and nonconformist values erect elite institutions guaranteed to quash alternative voices! -Joellen Meglin, Temple University Author InformationAndrea Harris is Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Certified Movement Analyst. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |