May Christians dance?
By: By Jas. H. Brookes.
Publisher: J. W. McIntyre
Published: 1869
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Dance -- Religious aspects.; Antidance Literature.
Description: This is a typical example of the antidance literature that was published during the nineteenth century. Although Brookes provides a weak defense of dancing, his final conclusion is that the large assemblies, indelicate dressing, "unwarrantable freedom of intercourse between the sexes," as well as uncontrolled excitement, leads to a thorough worldliness and, ultimately, to the forgetfulness of God. The manual was reissued in the 1890s under the title The modern dance.
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