Adversaries of dance
Subtitle: from the Puritans to the present
By: Ann Wagner.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Dance -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History; Dance -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; United States -- Moral conditions
Description: Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial "dance palace," or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral - more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.