Society Dancing

Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920

T. Buckland (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

247 Seiten

2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-27714-4 (ISBN)

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Based on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among London's fashionable society, dancing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was variously a means of social modelling, change, conformity and creative individual expression.

THERESA BUCKLAND Professor of Performing Arts at De Montfort University, UK.

Acknowledgements Preface List of Illustrations Contents PART I: SOCIETY DANCES Fashionable Bodies and Society Dancing Fashioning Dance Histories The Seasonal Round Public Spaces Late Victorian Repertoire Anarchy in the Ball Room PART II: FASHIONING GENTILITY A Noble Profession Temples of Terpsichore The Fashioning of Ladies Modelling the Lady Where are our Men? Dancing Dogs and Manly Men PART III: MODERN MOVES Moving into the Twentieth Century Modernizing Terpsichore Civilization Under Threat Knuts and Aliens Civilizing from the Centre Looking Back, Moving On Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.6.2011
Zusatzinfo	X, 247 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-230-27714-4 / 0230277144
ISBN-13	978-0-230-27714-4 / 9780230277144
Zustand	Neuware