6. Decency, Health, and Grace Endangered by Quick Dancing?

Newspaper articles constitute significant contemporary sources for discourses on dance. This chapter examines two such sources, offering detailed analysis of the texts, the authors, their background and the cultural and political climate they represent. The sources, consisting of a letter and a repl...

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Main Author Gremlicová, Dorota
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Open Book Publishers 2020
Subjects
Dance
History
cultural memory
folklore
dance studies
Polka
historiography
dance
Waltz
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Summary:Newspaper articles constitute significant contemporary sources for discourses on dance. This chapter examines two such sources, offering detailed analysis of the texts, the authors, their background and the cultural and political climate they represent. The sources, consisting of a letter and a reply, discuss what the leading authorities of the time saw as positive and negative aspects of dancing, and together they redress the balance of the frequently one-sided outcries against dance as a da...
ISBN:9781783747320
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