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Author Wilbur, Sarah, 1974- author.

Title Funding bodies : five decades of dance making at the National Endowment for the Arts / Sarah Wilbur
Published Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Institutions motivate movement -- Boom for whom? : engineering support for American concertdDance (1965-1980) -- Bureaucratic angling, institutional activism : dance's (c)overt "culture wars" (1981-1996) -- Disinvesting in dance : the NEA's neoliberal turn (1997-2016) -- Afterword : Does the NEA need saving? : endowment and collective repair -- Appendix A. NEA leadership rosters -- Appendix B. Project interlocutors
Summary "A cultural and structural analysis of the NEA's dance funding from its inception through the early 2000s. Wilbur studies how people in power engineer and translate institutional norms of arts recognition within dance, performance, and arts policy disclosure"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021)
Subject National Endowment for the Arts -- History
SUBJECT National Endowment for the Arts. fast (OCoLC)fst00529469
Subject Federal aid to dance -- United States -- History
Federal aid to dance.
United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021024468
ISBN 9780819580535
0819580538