| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey. By Julia L. Foulkes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 257 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2698-7. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5367-4.)

Modern Bodies is a welcome addition to the literature on American concert dance in the twentieth century. It acknowledges the complexity of this remarkably creative period while it documents the trajectory of modern dance from being heartland-oriented to being on the edges of the arts. Three themes distinguish it from most other histories: it treats the influence of African American dance and dancers; it sets the new dance forms, schools, and performing venues within the social and political context of twentieth-century America, examining the melding of art and politics; and it explores, through careful comparison, the play of gender roles in the development of an American modern dance.

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