Society dancing
Subtitle: fashionable bodies in England, 1870-1920
By: Theresa Jill Buckland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780230277144
Subjects: Dance; Social life and customs; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Appendix: Key personnel in society dancing in England, 1870-1920.