Dancing Class

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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 urbanliving, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among differentclasses." -- Choice From salons to dance halls to settlementhouses, new dance practices at the turn of the century became a vehicle forexpressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining masternarratives of modern dance history, this provocative and insightful bookdemonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices.