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Dancing in the English style : Consumption, Americanisation and national identity in Britain, 1918-50 /
Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. It describes the rise of modern ballroom dancing as Britain's predominant popular style, as well as the opening of h...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; General editor's foreword; Introduction; 1 Dancing mad! The modernisation of popular dance; 2 Who makes new dances? The dance profession and the evolution of style; 3 At the palais: the dance hall industry and the standardisation of experience; 4 The dance evil: gender, sexuality and the representation of popular dance; 5 English style: foreign culture, race and the Anglicisation of popular dance.
- 6 Doing the Lambeth Walk: novelty dances and the commodification of the nation7 Dancing democracy in wartime Britain; 8 The 'infernal jitterbug' and the transformation of popular dance; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Index.