Worlds of Social Dancing

Dance Floor Encounters and the Global Rise of Couple Dancing, c. 1910–40

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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By the 1920s, much of the world was ‘dance mad,’ as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, engaged in the Charleston, the foxtrot and a whole host of other fashionable dances. Worlds of social dancing examines how these dance cultures spread around the globe at this time and how they were altered to suit local tastes. As it looks at dance as a ‘social world’, the book explores the social and personal relationships established in encounters on dance floors on all continents. It also acknowledges the impact of radio and (sound) film as well as the contribution of dance teachers, musicians and other entertainment professionals to the making of the new dance culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-25
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt599 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Popular Culture
Antal sidor304
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526156259

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Introduction Dance floor encounters and the global rise of couple dancing: an introduction to the worlds of social dancing – Klaus Nathaus and James Nott1 Tango dancing in Buenos Aires: women, style and intimacy (1920–1940) – Cecilia Tossounian2 Building ‘Dreamland’: dancers, musicians, and the transformation of social dancing into mass culture in the USA, c. 1900–1941 – Klaus Nathaus3 ‘We do not want “fairies” in the ballroom’: working-class men, dancing and the renegotiation of masculinity in interwar Britain – James Nott4 Similar steps, different venues: the making of segregated dancing worlds in South Africa, 1910–1939 – Alida Maria Green5 ‘European dances’ in colonial Kikuyuland: modernities, ethnicity, and politics, 1926–1947 – Cécile Feza Bushidi6 Domesticating the social dance: the case of New Zealand between the two World Wars – John Griffiths7 Demarcating status: tango music and dance in Japan, 1913–1940 – Yuiko Asaba8 The rise of Chinese taxi-dancers: glamorous careers, romantic fantasies, and sexual dreams on the dance floors of Shanghai, 1919–1937 – Andrew David Field9 Dancing through dictatorship: everyday practices and affective experiences of social dancing in Fascist Italy – Kate Ferris10 Co-ordinating for love: establishing conventions of romantic couple dancing in interwar Germany – Klaus Nathaus11 Between control, education, and free communication: socialdancing in the USSR from the 1920s to the early 1960s – Igor Narskiy