Allison Abra

Dancing in the English style

Consumption, Americanisation and national identity in Britain, 1918-50

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Produktbeschreibung

This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction, in a period when Britain participated in increasingly global markets of cultural production, consumption and exchange.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781784994334
• ISBN-10: 1784994332
• Artikelnr.: 47878905

Autorenporträt

Allison Abra is Assistant Professor of History and a Fellow in the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi

Inhaltsangabe

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
nation 7 Dancing democracy in wartime Britain 8 The 'infernal jitterbug'
and the transformation of popular dance Epilogue: Come dancing: popular
dance in post-war Britain Select bibliography Index