Modern dances
By: by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Don Luigi Satori.
Publisher: St. Joseph's Printing Office
Published: 1910
Place of publication: Colleg[e]ville, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Dance -- Religious aspects.; Antidance Literature.
Description: Like other publications of its kind, this antidance treaty defends the dances of the Greeks and Romans as well as dances mentioned in the Bible on the grounds that they were performed by segregated sexes. With customary western bias, Sartori notes that when Christianity "supplanted Paganism, it found many objectionable practices and customs which it had to eradicate. One was dancing." The author objects both to waltzing, which he claims to be a violation of the Sixth Commandment, and the quadrille, which is "a malicious preparation to enjoy the mad rush to a close embrace." The manual was also published in German under the title Die modernen Tänze.
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