Catherine Gunther Kodat

Biographic Data

ID799129
NAMECatherine Gunther Kodat
GIVEN NAMESCatherine Gunther
FAMILY NAMEKodat
SIGNATUREKODAT C G
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange

    Catherine Gunther KodatARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    Journal Article Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange Get access By Clare Croft. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii, 256 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Page 257, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw133 Published: 01 June 2016

  • Margaret Garner and the Second Tear

    Open AccessCatherine Gunther KodatARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2008References: 2

    Margaret Garner and the Second Tear Catherine Gunther Kodat (bio) Margaret Garner, an opera. Music by Richard Danielpour; libretto by Toni Morrison. World première at Michigan Opera Theatre May 7, 2005. New production by the New York City Opera performed on various dates in September 2007. I wanted that haunting not to be really a suggestion of being bedeviled by the past, but to have it be incarnate, to have it actually happen that a person ente…

  • Making Camp: Go Down, Moses

    Catherine Gunther KodatARTICLEAmerican Literary History2007

    Journal Article Making Camp: Go Down, Moses Get access Catherine Gunther Kodat Catherine Gunther Kodat [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 19, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 997–1029, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajm033 Published: 22 September 2007

  • Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to Leningrad

    Catherine Gunther Kodat, Vera Krasovskaya et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2006

    The first English edition of the only biography of Agrippina Vaganova (1897-1951) was originally published in Russian in 1989. It tells the story of one of most important dance teachers of the 20th century, who created a system of teaching ballet that spread throughout the former Soviet Union and beyond. Vaganova rose through the ranks to become a ballerina in the Imperial Ballet during the last days of Tsarist Russia. After the Revolution of 191…

  • Conversing with Ourselves: Canon, Freedom, Jazz

    Open AccessCatherine Gunther KodatARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2003Cited by: 2References: 3

    Theodor Adorno's essay "On Jazz" is usually condemned as an elitist, if not racist, diatribe against jazz's possibility of attaining the status of "art" music. Adorno's concern with the ideological uses of jazz music, however, remains useful, particularly in light of recent efforts to claim a "high" art status for jazz through the creation of a canon. Ken Burns's recent PBS documentary Jazz vividly illustrates the problems with a "canonical" appr…

  • Saving Private Property: Steven Spielberg's American Dream Works

    Catherine Gunther KodatARTICLERepresentations2000References: 3

    IN A QUIET MOMENT BEFORE THE climactic battle to defend the bridge in Saving Private Ryan, the eponymous hero of Steven Spielberg's 1998 film confesses to Tom Hanks's Captain Miller that, try as he may to remember his brothers, he can't their Since it was the swift and sudden deaths of those three young men that led to the mission to rescue Private Ryan in the first place, we may safely assume that this lapse is meant to signal Something Big. And…