Dancing in the blood modern dance and European culture on the eve of the First World War Dickinson, Edward Ross creator author. text bibliography History. enk 2017 2017 monographic eng print xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm "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"-- 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. Edward Ross Dickinson, University of California at Davis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292) and index. e------ Modern dance Social aspects Europe Europe Civilization 20th century Europe Social life and customs 20th century Modern dance History 20th century Modern dance Social aspects HISTORY Europe General Civilization Manners and customs Modern dance Modern dance Social aspects Europe 1900-1999 fast GV1643 .D53 2017 792.8094/0904 HIS010000 9781107196223 1107196221 9781316647219 1316647218 2017003645 DLC 170428 20171027093726.0 in00003902048 eng