Spreading the Gospel of the Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in the United States, 1850-1934
By Lynne Conner.
Description
In the fall of 1927, newspaper dance writing in the United States evolved from a haphazard and largely throw-away subspecies of music criticism (covered by music and drama critics and sometimes sports and society columnists) into a specialized field of arts reporting and commentary. Lynne Conner investigates the watershed moment when New York City's three leading daily newspapers -- the New York World, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Times -- all hired full-time dance writers. Her investigation reveals the relationship between the rise of American concert dance, the solo ...
ISBN(s)
0822939630, 9780822939634
