Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake A Social and Popular Dance Reader

Name: Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake A Social and Popular Dance Reader
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ISBN: 9780252075650

ISBN-10: 025207565X

ISBN-13: 9780252075650

Edition: 2008

Authors: Julie Malnig, Elizabeth Aldrich, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Yvonne Daniel, Sherril Dodds

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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 10/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Sherril Dodds is a Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Surrey.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Historical Precedents



Our National Poetry / The Afro-Chesapeake Inventions of American Dance




The Civilizing of America's Ballrooms / The Revolutionary War to 1890




"Just Like Being at the Zoo" / Primitivity and Ragtime Dance




Apaches, Tangos, and Other Indecencies / Women, Dance, and New York Nightlife of the 1910s




Evolving Styles



Reality Dance / American Dance Marathons




The Trianon and On / Reading Mass Social Dancing in the 1930s and 1940s in Alberta, Canada




Negotiating Compromise on a Burnished Wood Floor / Social Dancing at the Savoy




Rumba Then and Now / Quindembo




Embodying Music/Disciplining Dance / The Mambo Body in Havana and New York City




Rocking Around the Clock / Teenage Dance Fads from 1955 to 1965




Beyond the Hustle / 1970s Social Dancing, Discotheque Culture, and the Emergence of the Contemporary Club Dancer




Theatricalizations of Social Dance Forms



"A Thousand Raggy, Draggy Dances" / Social Dance in Broadway Musical Comedy in the 1920s




From Bharata Natyam to Bop / Jack Cole's "Modern" Jazz Dance




From Busby Berkeley to Madonna / Music Video and Popular Dance




The Dance Archaeology of Rennie Harris / Hip-Hop or Postmodern?




The Contemporary Scene



"C'mon to My House" / Underground House Dancing




Dancing Latin/Latin Dancing / Salsa and DanceSport




Louisiana Gumbo / Retention, Creolization, and Innovation in Contemporary Cajun and Zydeco Dance




The Multiringed Cosmos of Krumping / Hip-Hop Dance at the Intersections of Battle, Media, and Spirit



Contributors


Index