Worlds of Social Dancing: Dance Floor Encounters and the Global Rise of Couple Dancing, c. 1910–40

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