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2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-215
Author(s):  
Erika Rappaport
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Women's History ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Rutgers University

Ballet and Popular Culture in America

Ballet Class ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 277-304
Author(s):  
Melissa R. Klapper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The Subject

Ballet’s popularity as entertainment has grown steadily in the United States since the early nineteenth century, and it has appeared in a wide variety of cultural spaces. Three arenas of American popular culture where ballet has consistently been important are movies, television, and the ubiquitous holiday performances of The Nutcracker. Dance was the subject of some of the earliest movies ever filmed and has remained a frequent theme. Millions of Americans have seen ballet on television, and as many have also seen performances of The Nutcracker. Over the course of the twentieth century many Americans have been inspired to take ballet classes or send their children to ballet classes as a result of their engagement with ballet in popular culture.

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