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Amy Koritz - Culture Makers - 9780252033841 - V9780252033841
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Culture Makers

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Description for Culture Makers Hardback. A wide-ranging study of the cultural, social, and technological developments of the 1920s and their effect on the performing arts and literature Num Pages: 216 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 3JJG; AN; ASD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
In this multidisciplinary study, Amy Koritz examines the drama, dance, and literature of the 1920s, focusing on how artists used these different media to engage three major concurrent shifts in economic and social organization: the emergence of rationalized work processes and expert professionalism; the advent of mass markets and the consequent necessity of consumerism as a behavior and ideology; and the urbanization of the population, in concert with the invention of urban planning and the recognition of specifically urban subjectivities.

Koritz examines several plays from the 1920s--including Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine, and Sophie ... Read more

The 1920s saw significant developments in both popular and formal dance, and Koritz explores the dance of this era through the lens of gender. Exploring the cultural anxieties surrounding female behavior and physical expression, she looks at the rise of popular dance during this time, particularly the extraordinarily popular Charleston. Legendary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham also began her career as a modern dancer during this time, and Koritz examines Graham's ability to achieve significant prestige as a female artist in a genre still considered marginal.

Finally, in the domain of American fiction and letters of the 1920s, this study points to several authors’ concerns with the social and cultural effects of urbanization in modern America. Analyzing the various and sometimes contrasting strategies of Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements, John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer, and Lewis Mumford’s commentary on architecture and urban planning, Koritz shows how writers and public intellectuals were deeply engaged with working out the problems and possibilities of urban life.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252033841
SKU
V9780252033841
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Amy Koritz
Amy Koritz is the director of the Center for Civic Engagement and a professor of English at Drew University. She is the author of Gendering Bodies/Performing Art: Dance and Literature in Early Twentieth-Century British Culture.

Reviews for Culture Makers
"Cleverly investigates ways in which drama, dance, and literature either embraced or challenged the rhythm of the time. . . . Highly recommended."
Choice "A lucid and insightful cross-genre study of the engagement between cultural producers and the transformations that took effect in American society in the decade often characterized as the Jazz Age."
American Studies “Amy Koritz's engaging book brings together ... Read more

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