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Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
Lilian Karina
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Hardcover. Karina, a professional dancer who fled wartime Germany, and dance historian Kant (U. of Pennsylvania) counter revisionist histories of dance in the Nazi era. In their first-hand accounts and analysis, they emphasize dancers' collaboration with the regime and the regime's infusion of its Aryan/anti-S Translator(s): Steinberg, Jonathan. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15 illustrations, bibliographies, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ASD; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 664.
The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. Modern expressive dance, however, found favour with the regime and especially with Dr Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. The way in which modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled Nazi culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later.
The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. Modern expressive dance, however, found favour with the regime and especially with Dr Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. The way in which modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled Nazi culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
663g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571813008
SKU
V9781571813008
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About Lilian Karina
Lilian Karina, born in Russia, studied ballet in Berlin in the 1920s. She fled from Germany to Hungary and later Sweden, where she opened a ballet studio and still lives in Stockholm. Marion Kant was raised in East Berlin and began dancing at the Comic Opera at the age of 14. She took her PhD at Humboldt University in Musicology ... Read more
Reviews for Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
An important contribution to the discussion [on Nazism and dance] - obligatory reading on the history of dance - that makes parts of this book as gripping as a thriller. Der Tanz der Dinge Highly recommended... The most important publication on dance in the Third Reich. Tanzwissenschaft