Don't Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture

Drawing On Fresh Archival Material, Catherine Gunther Kodat Questions Several Commonly Held Beliefs About The Purpose And Meaning Of Modernist Cultural Productions During The Cold War. Rather Than Read The Dance Through A Received Understanding Of Cold War Culture, Don't Act, Just Dance Reads Cold War Culture Through The Dance, And In Doing So Establishes A New Understanding Of The Politics Of Modernism In The Arts Of The Period-- Preface -- Part I. Rethinking Cold War Culture: 1. Combat Cultural; 2. History: From The Wpa To The Nea (through The Cia); 3. Theory: Adorno And Rancière (abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality); 4. Dancing: Don't Act, Just Dance -- Part Ii. Rereading Cold War Culture: 5. Figures In The Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, Persia; 6. Spartacus; 7. From Art As Diplomacy To Diplomacy As Art: The Red Detachment Of Nixon In China. Catherine Gunther Kodat. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 187-202) And Index. Text In English.