Dancing class : gender, ethnicity, and social divides in American Dance, 1890-1920

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Main Author: Tomko, Linda J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bodies and dances in Progressive-era America
  • Constituting culture, authorizing dance
  • The settlement house and the playhouse: cultivating dance on New York's Lower East Side
  • From Henry Street to Grand Street: transfer and transition to the neighborhood playhouse
  • Working women's dancing, and dance as women's work: Hull-House, Chicago Commons, and Boston's South End House
  • Folk dance, park fetes, and period political values.