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Satan in the Dance Hall
Ralph G. Giordano
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Description for Satan in the Dance Hall
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s. The book focuses on the fiercely contested debate over the morality of social dancing in New York City, led by moral reformers and religious leaders like Rev. John Roach Straton. Fed by the firm belief that dancing was the leading cause of immorality in New York, Straton and his followers succeeded in enacting municipal regulations on social dancing and moral conduct within the more than 750 public dance halls in New York City. Ralph G. ... Read more
Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s. The book focuses on the fiercely contested debate over the morality of social dancing in New York City, led by moral reformers and religious leaders like Rev. John Roach Straton. Fed by the firm belief that dancing was the leading cause of immorality in New York, Straton and his followers succeeded in enacting municipal regulations on social dancing and moral conduct within the more than 750 public dance halls in New York City. Ralph G. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810861466
SKU
V9780810861466
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Ref
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About Ralph G. Giordano
Ralph G. Giordano is the author of Social Dancing in America, Volume 1 (2006) and Volume 2 (2007).
Reviews for Satan in the Dance Hall
Describes a huge cultural phenomenon focusing on the debate about the morality of social dancing.
Foreword Reviews, January 2009
This is a book of amazing revelations, leaving no doubt that jazz culture was more threatening than punk.
Djhistory.Com, Fall 2009
An in-depth examination of the clash between morality and modernism in New York City in the ... Read more
Foreword Reviews, January 2009
This is a book of amazing revelations, leaving no doubt that jazz culture was more threatening than punk.
Djhistory.Com, Fall 2009
An in-depth examination of the clash between morality and modernism in New York City in the ... Read more