Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920

Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies. . . . the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among different classes. --Choice

From salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the century became a vehicle for expressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining master narratives of modern dance history, this provocative and insightful book demonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices.

Author: Linda J. Tomko
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01/22/2000
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.07w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780253213273

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2000 pg. 546

About the Author

Linda J. Tomko is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California, Riverside. She is President of the Society of Dance History Scholars and Co-Director of the annual Stanford University Summer Workshop in Baroque Dance. In 1997 she won the Gertrude Lippincott Prize, awarded by SDHS, for her article Fete Accompli, published in Corporealities.