Don't ACT, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Gunther Kodat Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefacePart I Rethinking Cold War Culture1 Combat Cultural2 History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA)3 Theory: Adorno and Rancière (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality)4 Dancing: Don't Act, Just DancePart II Rereading Cold War Culture5 Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, Persia6 Spartacus7 From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in ChinaNotesBibliographyIndex

Autorentext

Catherine Gunther Kodat

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Preface

Part I Rethinking Cold War Culture

1 Combat Cultural

2 History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA)

3 Theory: Adorno and Rancière (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality)

4 Dancing: “Don’t Act, Just Dance”

Part II Rereading Cold War Culture

5 Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, “Persia”

6 Spartacus

7 From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in China

Notes

Bibliography

Index