Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U. S. History and dance studies. . . . the first to argue successfully that middle class U. S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among different classes. Choice From salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the century became a vehicle for