Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader
- Editor: Malnig, Julie
Malnig makes a significant contribution to the field of dance studies with this impressive, long-overdue investigation into the rich world of vernacular dance traditions. . . . Highly recommended — More…
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$158.00Contents
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction / Julie Malnig 1
- SECTION 1 / HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS
- 1. Our National Poetry / The Afro-Chesapeake Inventions of American Dance 19 Jurretta Jordan Heckscher
- 2. The Civilizing of America's Ballrooms / The Revolutionary War to 1890 36 Elizabeth Aldrich
- 3. "Just Like Being at the Zoo" / Primitivity and Ragtime Dance 55 Nadine George-Graves
- 4. Apaches, Tangos, and Other Indecencies / Women, Dance, and New York Nightlife of the 1910s 72 Julie Malnig
- SECTION 2 / EVOLVING STYLES
- 5. Reality Dance / American Dance Marathons 93 Carol Martin
- 6. The Trianon and On / Reading Mass Social Dancing in the 1930s and 1940s in Alberta, Canada 109 Lisa Doolittle
- 7. Negotiating Compromise on a Burnished Wood Floor / Social Dancing at the Savoy 126 Karen Hubbard and Terry Monaghan
- 8. Rumba Then and Now / Quindembo 146 Yvonne Daniel
- 9. Embodying Music/Disciplining Dance / The mambo Body in Havana and New York City 165 David F. Garcia
- 10. Rocking Around the Clock / Teenage Dance Fads from 1955 to 1965 182 Tim Wall
- 11. Beyond the Hustle / 1970s Social Dancing, Discotheque Culture, and the Emergence of the Contemporary Club Dancer 199 Tim Lawrence
- SECTION 3 / THEATRICALIZATIONS OF SOCIAL DANCE FORMS
- 12. "A Thousand Raggy, Draggy Dances" / Social Dance in Broadway Musical Comedy in the 1920s 217 Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
- 13. From Bharata Natyam to Bop / Jack Cole's "Modern" Jazz Dance 234 Constance Valis Hill
- 14. From Busby Berkeley to Madonna / Music Video and Popular Dance 247 Sherril Dodds
- 15. The Dance Archaeology of Rennie Harris / Hip-Hop or Postmodern? 261 Halifu Osumare
- SECTION 4 / THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE
- 16. "C'mon to My House" / Underground House Dancing 285 Sally R. Sommer
- 17. Dancing Latin/Latin Dancing / Salsa and Dancesport 302 Juliet McMains
- 18. Louisiana Gumbo / Retention, Creolization, and Innovation in Contemporary Cajun and Zydeco Dance 323 May Gwin Waggoner
- 19. The Multiringed Cosmos of Krumping / Hip-Hop Dance at the Intersections of Battle, Media, and Spirit 337 Christina Zanfagna
- Contributors 355
- Index 361