Society dancing fashionable bodies in England, 1870-1920 Theresa Jill Buckland New York, 2011

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011Description: x, 247 s. illISBN:
  • 9780230277144 (hardback)
  • 0230277144 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.310904212 22
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 -- Appendix: Key personnel in society dancing in England, 1870-1920.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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 -- Appendix: Key personnel in society dancing in England, 1870-1920.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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