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1 online resource (304 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in Popular Culture
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Studies in Popular Culture.
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| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-276) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dance -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Dance. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Richards, Jeffrey.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Abra, Allison. Dancing in the English style. Consumption, Americanisation, and national identity in Britain, 1918-50. Manchester : Manchester University Press 2017 9781784994334 (OCoLC)974846997 |
| ISBN |
9781526105943 (electronic book) |
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1526105942 (electronic book) |
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9781784994334 |
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1784994332 |
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