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Gertrude Prokosch Kurath was born on 19 August, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American dancer, researcher, author and ethnomusicologist. Discover Gertrude Prokosch Kurath's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Occupation Dancer, ethnomusicologist
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 19 August 1903
Birthday 19 August
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois
Date of death 1 August, 1992
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Nationality United States

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1903

Gertrude Prokosch Kurath (1903–1992) was an American dancer, researcher, author, and ethnomusicologist.

She researched and wrote extensively on the study of dance, co-authoring several books and writing hundreds of articles.

Gertrude Prokosch was born on August 19, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois.

She was the daughter of Eduard Prokosch, a historical linguist, and sister to the writer Frederic Prokosch and the architect Walther Prokosch.

1922

She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, receiving a BA in 1922, and an MA in art history in 1928, concurrently studying music and dance in Berlin, Philadelphia, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island from 1922 to 1928.

She danced under the stage name of Tula, starting in 1922.

1923

From 1923 to 1946 she was a teacher, performer, producer, and choreographer of modern dance.

1929

She then studied music and dance at the Yale School of Drama at Yale University, from 1929 to 1930.

1940

In the mid-1940s, she turned her focus to the study of American Indian dance, doing extensive fieldwork on the musical traditions of Michigan's Anishinaabe and others.

1949

She was awarded grants for field research by the Wenner-Gren Foundation from 1949 to 1973, the American Philosophical Society from 1951 to 1965, and the National Museum of Canada (1962–1965, 1969–1970).

She wrote about Iroquois, Pueblo, Six Nations, and Great Lakes Indian dances, as well as on the subjects of dance theory and methods.

1958

From 1958 to January 1972 she was dance editor for the journal Ethnomusicology.

1960

Her main areas of interest were ethnomusicology and dance ethnology, with some of her best known works being "Panorama of Dance Ethnology" in Current Anthropology (1960), the book Music and dance of the Tewa Pueblos co-written with Antonio Garcia (1970), and Iroquois Music and Dance: ceremonial arts of two Seneca Longhouses (1964), in the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology bulletin.

She made substantial contributions to the study of Amerindian dance, and to dance theory.

1962

In 1962, she founded the Dance Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Her other scholarly interests included the fields of folk liturgy and rock music.

Robert Commanday of the San Francisco Chronicle praised her addition to The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, saying, "For the first time in the country's history, a comprehensive survey of its music and musicians is available in a single reference work. It encompasses the spectrum, the fields of concert, opera, traditional, folk and popular music, and areas related to and touching on American music in every conceivable way - industry, technology, education, religion, literature.... Two treatments must be singled out as unique and outstanding. One is the 20-page study on "Indians, American" by Bruno Nettl and Charlotte Heth on the music, Gertrude Kurath on the dance. In addition, there are separate articles on the music of nearly 40 tribes and tribal groups. Equally impressive is the 22-page article on 'European-American Music', treating in sequence the musical cultures and influences here of 19 European countries."

1992

Kurath died on August 1, 1992, just a few months after the death of her husband, linguist Hans Kurath.

Her archives are maintained at Cross-Cultural Dance Resources in Arizona, which published her work Half a Century of Dance Research.

The Iroquois materials are housed in the Woodlands Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario.