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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 Dancing mad! The modernisation of popular dance 2 Who makes new dances? The dance profession and the evolution of style3 At the palais: the dance hall industry and the standardisation of experience4 The dance evil: gender, sexuality and the representation of popular dance5 English style: foreign culture, race and the Anglicisation of popular dance6 Doing the Lambeth Walk: novelty dances and the commodification of the nation7 Dancing democracy in wartime Britain8 The 'infernal jitterbug' and the transformation of popular danceEpilogue: Come dancing: popular dance in post-war BritainSelect bibliographyIndex
