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Don't Act, Just Dance

Don't Act, Just Dance

The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture

By Catherine Gunther Kodat

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Publish Date

2014

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Language

eng

Pages

256

Description:

"Drawing on fresh archival material, Catherine Gunther Kodat questions several commonly held beliefs about the purpose and meaning of modernist cultural productions during the Cold War. Rather than read the dance through a received understanding of Cold War culture, Don't Act, Just Dance reads Cold War culture through the dance, and in doing so establishes a new understanding of the politics of modernism in the arts of the period"--