Title Dancing the world smaller : staging globalism in mid-century America / Rebekah J. Kowal

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) Series Oxford studies in dance theory Oxford studies in dance theory. Contents Staging integration : around the world with dance and song at the American Museum of Natural History, 1943-1952 -- Staging ethnologic dance : La Meri, whiteness, and the problems of cross-ethnic embodiment -- Staging diaspora : Asadata Dafora and black cultural diplomacy -- Staging diversity/staging containment : paradoxes of mid-century globalism Summary 'Dancing the World Smaller' examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to realize diversity while honouring difference Notes Due to be issued in print: 2020 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2019) Subject Dance -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Folk dancing -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Dancers -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Dance and globalization -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Cultural diplomacy -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Multiculturalism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Cultural diplomacy Dance and globalization Dance -- Political aspects Dancers -- Political activity Ethnic relations Folk dancing -- Political aspects Multiculturalism SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190265359 0190265353 0190265337 9780190265335

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