Jerome Robbins Resources by Hunter Purvis

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Opus Jazz By: Jerome Robbins

Music By: Robert Prince

N.Y. Export

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PBS Documentary

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Chapter 4: Jerome Robbins: The Later Career

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Long, Robert Emmet. “CHAPTER FOUR: JEROME ROBBINS: The Later Career.” Broadway, the Golden Years, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2003, pp. 112–42. EBSCOhost,

Show Makers: Great Directors of American Musical Theatre

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Show Makers: Great Directors of American Musical Theatre. Taylor & Francis Ltd / Books, 2002.

Something About Dance: Flim

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this is a review of this PBS film

Edney, Kathryn. “Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About.” Film & History (03603695), vol. 43, no. 1, May 2013, pp. 77–80. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=74c03317-fa49-3243-a670-6c8ab58baae8.

Ballet for New Generation

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Jarrett, Sarah. “Ballte for a New Generation.” Pointe, vol. 9, no. 3, June 2008, pp. 36–38. EBSCOhost,

Post WWII

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Post–World War II Anxiety & Cold War Tensions

The ballet premiered during the height of the Cold War, when fears of nuclear war and tensions with the Soviet Union influenced American life.
Dance, music, and film often carried subtle (or overt) messages about “freedom” versus “conformity,” with American art seen as a tool of cultural diplomacy.

Brown v. Board of Education

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"An Aesthetic of the Cool"

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Thompson, Robert Farris. “An Aesthetic of the Cool.” African Arts, vol. 7, no. 1, 1973, pp. 41–91. JSTOR.

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"What Makes that Black: The African American Aesthetic in American Expressive Culture" by Luana

https://whatmakesthatblack.net/2018/01/29/video-lectures-the-african-american-aesthetic/

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Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches

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Guarino, Lindsay, and Wendy Oliver. Jazz Dance : A History of the Roots and Branches / Edited by Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver. 1st ed., University Press of Florida, 2014.

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The Shapes of Change

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Siegel, Marcia B. The Shapes of Change : Images of American Dance / Marcia B. Siegel ; Illustrated with Photos. Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance By: Deborah Jowitt

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"NY Export: Opus Jazz." , directed by Anonymous , C Major Entertainment, 2009. Alexander Street, https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/ny-export-opus-jazz.

Breif Jazz Dance Explaination

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Jazz Dance Evolution: From Emancipation to 1970

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Evolution of Jazz Dance Styles

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Culture During the Cold War

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