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Hitler's Dancers : German Modern Dance and the Third Reich / Marion Kant, Lilian Karina, Jonathan Steinberg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781571816887
  • 9781782389583
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.8/0943 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1651
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translater’s Foreword -- Preface -- PART I -- RECOLLECTIONS -- PART II -- “DANCE IS A RACE QUESTION.” THE DANCE POLITICS OF THE REICH MINISTRY OF POPULAR ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPAGANDA -- PART III -- THE NAZI ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS JAZZ AND SWING: A CASE STUDY -- PART IV -- DANCE UNDER THE NAZIS: DOCUMENTARY APPENDIX -- Appendix The Administrative Structure of the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda and the Reich Culture Chambers -- Chronology -- References -- Sources. -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later. The book offers three perspectives: the dancer Lilian Karina writes her very vivid personal story of dancing in interwar Germany; the dance historian Marion Kant gives a systematic account of the interaction of modern dance and the totalitarian state, and a documentary appendix provides a glimpse into the twisted reality created by Nazi racism, pedantic bureaucrats and artistic ambition.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translater’s Foreword -- Preface -- PART I -- RECOLLECTIONS -- PART II -- “DANCE IS A RACE QUESTION.” THE DANCE POLITICS OF THE REICH MINISTRY OF POPULAR ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPAGANDA -- PART III -- THE NAZI ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS JAZZ AND SWING: A CASE STUDY -- PART IV -- DANCE UNDER THE NAZIS: DOCUMENTARY APPENDIX -- Appendix The Administrative Structure of the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda and the Reich Culture Chambers -- Chronology -- References -- Sources. -- Bibliography -- Index

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The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later. The book offers three perspectives: the dancer Lilian Karina writes her very vivid personal story of dancing in interwar Germany; the dance historian Marion Kant gives a systematic account of the interaction of modern dance and the totalitarian state, and a documentary appendix provides a glimpse into the twisted reality created by Nazi racism, pedantic bureaucrats and artistic ambition.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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