Martha graham autobiography vs biography

Martha Graham’s Gilded Cage: Blood Memory—An Autobiography (1991) Victoria Phillips Dance Research Journal, Volume 45, Number 2, August 2013, pp.

63-84 (Article) Published by Cambridge University Press For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/523989 Access provided by Columbia University (23 May 2017 07:16 GMT) Copyright © 2013 Congress on Research in Dance doi:10.1017/S0149767712000241 Martha Graham’s Gilded Cage: Blood Memory—An Autobiography (1991) Victoria Phillips “I’m only a bird in a gilded cage, a beautiful sight to see.” —Martha Graham, in a taped interview for Blood Memory1 istorians and dance critics alike have used phrases from Martha Graham’s Blood Memory: An Autobiography (1991) as though it were written in her own hand, despite concerns about the degree of her authorship expressed upon the book’s publication and repeated complaints from those who danced with her (