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

This look at Progressive-era women and innovative cultural practices "blazes a new trail in dance scholarship" (Choice, Outstanding Academic Book of the Year).
From salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the twentieth 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 d...