Examining social and popular dance forms from a variety of critical and cultural perspectives
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction / Julie Malnig
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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
Julie Malnig is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and the author of Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance.
"An incredibly needed volume for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and advisors in the field of dance. These essays afford compelling glimpses into communities dancing in particular places and times; the authors provide nuanced understandings of dancing as a means of forming identity and community." Ann Dils, co-editor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader "This invaluable volume covers an impressive range of genres, illuminating the liveliness and diversity of social dance. The book makes a unique contribution at a time when the field of dance studies is expanding to include forms other than Euro-American concert dance. An excellent book and a godsend for classroom use." Tricia Henry Young, director of the graduate program in American dance studies, Florida State University
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