Dance Floor Democracy : The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen /

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Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home-front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. The storied dance floor remains the subject of much U.S. national nostalgia for the "Good War" and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tucker, Sherrie, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hollywood Canteen.
Social conditions.
Social aspects.
Memory > Social aspects.
Dance > Social aspects.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Danse > Aspect social > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Dance > Social aspects > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: dance floor democracy?
  • Introduction: writing on a crowded dance floor
  • On location: situating the Hollywood Canteen (and swing culture as national memory) in wartime Los Angeles
  • Wrestling Hollywood to the map
  • Cruising the Cahuenga Pass(t)
  • Operating from the curbstone
  • Patriotic jitterbugs: tracing the footsteps of the soldier-hostess dyad
  • Dyad democracy
  • Injured parties
  • Torquing back
  • Women in uniforms, men in aprons: dancing outside the soldier-hostess dyad
  • The dyad from without
  • The view from the mezzanine
  • Men serving men
  • Swing between the nation and the state
  • (Un)American patrol: following the state on the dance floor of the nation
  • The making(s) of national memory: Hollywood Canteen (the movie).

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