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6%OFFAnn Wagner - ADVERSARIES OF DANCE: FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PRESENT - 9780252065903 - V9780252065903
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ADVERSARIES OF DANCE: FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PRESENT

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Description for ADVERSARIES OF DANCE: FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PRESENT Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 625.

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.

Wagner bases her work on the thesis that the tradition of opposition to dance "derived from white, male, Protestant clergy and evangelists who argued from a narrow and selective interpretation of ... Read more

Central to Wagner's work, which will be welcomed by scholars of both religion and dance, are issues of gender, race, and socioeconomic status.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252065903
SKU
V9780252065903
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Reviews for ADVERSARIES OF DANCE: FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PRESENT
"There are no other works that even begin to approach this definitive accomplishment."
 Amanda Porterfield, author of Female Piety in Puritan New England

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