Dance and the arts in Mexico, 1920-1950 : the cosmic generation /
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: 1920s: The Nation Body; Dance, Where Currents Meet; Two Tendencies; Three Channels of Exchange; The Conquest of New York; The Revolution; The Party in Power; A Future at Stake; Pavlova Dances the Jarabe; Pavlova's Mexican Fantasy; The Stadium; The Cosmic Race; Vasconcelos: The Dark Side; Leopoldo Zea and Postcolonial Theory; The Avant-Garde; The Dehumanization of Art; Forging Myths; Masculinity, a Driving Force; Gender Performance; Manly Art: The Debate of 1925; The United States: A Balancing Act; Salón México; Martha Graham and Chac Mool
- Marc Chagall in MexicoPerformance; Chapter 2: The 1930s: The Techno-Body; Chapter 3: The 1940s: The Falling Body; Chapter 4: The 1950s: The Hybrid Body; Chapter 2: 1930s: The Techno-Body; The Techno-Body; Colonizing the Body; The Press; The Story: Sailors, Mermaids, and a Stock Ticker; Tropical America; The Teponaxtli and the Huehuetl; Music and Electricity; The Score; Costumes and Scenery: Communication Breakdown; The Program Notes: Perplexing; The Agent: Frances Flynn Paine; Man, Controller of the Universe; The MOMA Exhibits; Strange Bedfellows; Chávez: An American Romance; Greater America
- Rivera the Infiltrator1949: H.P. in Mexico; Chapter 3: 1940s: The Falling Body; Bring on the Machines; Making Leaps; The Body at Work; Policing the Body; Nationalist Fervor; "30-30"; Gender Anxiety; A Brotherhood of Men; The Nation Family; Performing Women; Campobello's Role Play; The Cartucho Scandal; Tricks of the Weak; Ritmos Indígenas; Mestizaje on the Stage; Decline; Waldeen and "La Coronela"; Anna Sokolow: The Graham Technique; Falling; Chapter 4: 1950s: The Hybrid Body; Border-Crossing Art; The Hybrid Body; Transhumanism; Majesty and Tragedy; The Bullfighter; The New Triumvirate
- The Dancers' EducationDancers as Choreographers; Translating Across Borders; North-South Mestizaje; Danzas Mexicanas; La Malinche; The Four Suns; Tonantzintla: The Mexican Baroque; Dialogues; Taking It to the Streets; The Politics of Alliances; Limón the American; Offstage: Xavier Francis, Waldeen and Anna Sokolow; Dancing the Cold War; Limón as Cultural Attaché; Hybridity and Appropriation; Spiraling Down; Greater Mexico; Bibliography; Archives; Sound Recordings; Texts; Index