Worlds of social dancing : dance floor encounters and the global rise of couple dancing, c. 1910-40
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Worlds of social dancing : dance floor encounters and the global rise of couple dancing, c. 1910-40
(Studies in popular culture)
Manchester University Press, 2022
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
By the 1920s, much of the world was 'dance mad,' as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, engaged in the Charleston, the foxtrot and a whole host of other fashionable dances. Worlds of social dancing examines how these dance cultures spread around the globe at this time and how they were altered to suit local tastes. As it looks at dance as a 'social world', the book explores the social and personal relationships established in encounters on dance floors on all continents. It also acknowledges the impact of radio and (sound) film as well as the contribution of dance teachers, musicians and other entertainment professionals to the making of the new dance culture. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction Dance floor encounters and the global rise of couple dancing: an introduction to the worlds of social dancing - Klaus Nathaus and James Nott
1 Tango dancing in Buenos Aires: women, style and intimacy (1920-1940) - Cecilia Tossounian
2 Building 'Dreamland': dancers, musicians, and the transformation of social dancing into mass culture in the USA, c. 1900-1941 - Klaus Nathaus
3 'We do not want "fairies" in the ballroom': working-class men, dancing and the renegotiation of masculinity in interwar Britain - James Nott
4 Similar steps, different venues: the making of segregated dancing worlds in South Africa, 1910-1939 - Alida Maria Green
5 'European dances' in colonial Kikuyuland: modernities, ethnicity, and politics, 1926-1947 - Cecile Feza Bushidi
6 Domesticating the social dance: the case of New Zealand between the two World Wars - John Griffiths
7 Demarcating status: tango music and dance in Japan, 1913-1940 - Yuiko Asaba
8 The rise of Chinese taxi-dancers: glamorous careers, romantic fantasies, and sexual dreams on the dance floors of Shanghai, 1919-1937 - Andrew David Field
9 Dancing through dictatorship: everyday practices and affective experiences of social dancing in Fascist Italy - Kate Ferris
10 Co-ordinating for love: establishing conventions of romantic couple dancing in interwar Germany - Klaus Nathaus
11 Between control, education, and free communication: socialdancing in the USSR from the 1920s to the early 1960s - Igor Narskiy -- .
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