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From the Charleston to the Twist,
Going to the Palais provides a lively and vivid account of dancing and its interaction with race, gender, class, and national identity in Britain from 1918 to 1960, exploring the pivotal role dancehalls and dancing played in twentieth-century British social and cultural history.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Dancing, the Dance Hall Industry, and its Audience
- 1: The Birth of the Palais: Dancing and Dance Halls, 1918-1939
- 2: Wartime Boom: Dancing and the Dance Hall Industry at War, 1939-1945
- 3: Rise and Fall: The Golden Age of the Dance Hall, 1945-1960
- 4: The Development of Dancing in Britain 1918-1960
- Part II: The Dance Hall and British Society, 1918-1960
- 5: Youth and the dance hall, 1918-1960
- 6: Women, Dancing and Dance Halls, 1918-1960
- 7: Romance and Intimacy in the Dance Hall
- Part III: Conflicts and Control: Moral Panic and the Dance Hall 1918-1960
- 8: Morality, Gender, and the Dance Hall 1918-60
- 9: Race and the Dance Hall
- 10: The 'Youth Problem' and the Dance Hall 1918-1960
- Conclusion
About the author
James Nott is a social and cultural historian specialising in twentieth-century British culture and society. He is author of Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain (2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics, and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (2011). He is currently working on a history of masculinity in twentieth century Britain and the links between race and dance.
Summary
From the Charleston to the Twist, Going to the Palais provides a lively and vivid account of dancing and its interaction with race, gender, class, and national identity in Britain from 1918 to 1960, exploring the pivotal role dancehalls and dancing played in twentieth-century British social and cultural history.
