ADVERSARIES of DANCE

• Preface   viiIntroduction   xi Part 1: European Antecedents 1. The Pre-Reformation Tradition   32. The Voices of Protestant Reformers   19 Part 2: American Attitudes 3. The Puritans in New England: The Seventeenth Century   474. The Gentry and the Awakening: The Eighteenth Century   705. Early Evangelicals and American Etiquette: 1800-1839   1066. The Evangelical Mainstream and Radical Reformers: 1840-60   1417. Conservatives, Liberals, and the City: 1865-89   1938. Embattled Fundamentalists and the Rhetoric of Moral Panic: 1890-1939   2369. Urban Reformers and the Dance Hall: 1908-40   29210. The Polemic Upstaged: 1930-69 and Beyond   320 Part 3: Critical Variables and Cultural Context 11. The Nature of Dance and the Polemic in Reprise   36312. Aesthetics, Morality, and Gender   383 Appendix A. Bible Verses on Dance   401B. Known European Adversaries of Dance   407C. Lesser-Known Adversaries Mentioned in the Text   413 Index   423

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