Julie Malnig

Dancing Till Dawn

A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance

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Produktbeschreibung

Malnig examines exhibition ballroom dance as both a theatrical genre and a cultural and social phenomenon, promoting new cultural standards, including the emancipation of women and a new casualness and spontaneity between the sexes. A lively and thorough account of a dance form that has found renewed popularity in recent years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780814755280
• ISBN-10: 0814755283
• Artikelnr.: 22269774

Autorenporträt

Julie Malnig is Assistant Professor in the Gallatin Division of New York University where she teaches courses in Performance History, American Culture, and Gender Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The Origins and Rise of Exhibition Ballroom Dance
Dancing Deities: Career Paths of the Early Innovators
Cabaret Dancing
Taking the Palace by Storm: Exhibition Ballroom Dance in Vaudeville of the
Teens and Twenties
Exhibition Ballroom Dance in Early Musical Theatre
Decline and Rebirth
The Contemporary Renaissance
Appendix A: Social Dances, 1908-1919
Appendix B: Exhibition Ballroom Dance Technique, 1908-1919
Selected Bibliography
Index