Allison Abra

Dancing in the English style (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 hundreds of affordable dancing schools and purpose-built dance halls. It focuses in particular on the relationship between the dance profession and dance hall industry and the consumers who formed the dancing public. Together these groups negotiated the creation of a 'national' dancing style, which constructed, circulated, and commodified ideas about national identity. At the same time, the book emphasizes the global, exploring the impact of international cultural products on national identity construction, the complexities of Americanisation, and Britain's place in a transnational system of production and consumption that forged the dances of the Jazz Age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526105950
• Artikelnr.: 48795818

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