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Dancing in the English Style

Allison Abra
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      Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. It describes the rise of modern ballroom dancing as Britain's predominant popular style, as well as the opening of hundreds of affordable dancing schools and purpose-built dance halls. It focuses in particular on the relationship between the dance profession and dance hall industry and the consumers who formed the dancing public. Together these groups negotiated the creation of a 'national' dancing style, which constructed, circulated, and commodified ideas about national identity. At the same time, the book emphasizes the global, exploring the impact of international cultural products on national identity construction, the complexities of Americanisation, and Britain's place in a transnational system of production and consumption that forged the dances of the Jazz Age.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Allison Abra EAN: 9781784994334 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Manchester University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-04-26 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      History, Social and cultural history

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      Allison Abra is Assistant Professor of History and a Fellow in the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi
      Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. It describes the rise of modern ballroom dancing as Britain's predominant popular style, as well as the opening of hundreds of affordable dancing schools and purpose-built dance halls. It focuses in particular on the relationship between the dance profession and dance hall industry and the consumers who formed the dancing public. Together these groups negotiated the creation of a 'national' dancing style, which constructed, circulated, and commodified ideas about national identity. At the same time, the book emphasizes the global, exploring the impact of international cultural products on national identity construction, the complexities of Americanisation, and Britain's place in a transnational system of production and consumption that forged the dances of the Jazz Age.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Allison Abra EAN: 9781784994334 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Manchester University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-04-26 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      History, Social and cultural history

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      Allison Abra is Assistant Professor of History and a Fellow in the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi

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