Dancing In The Streets : A History Of Collective Joy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1847080081
ISBN-13
9781847080080
Publisher
Granta Books
Imprint
Granta Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 5th, 2008
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
238 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 13.00 x 2.30 cms
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'Dancing in the Streets is a genuine triumph of popular critical scholarship - the punchy elegance of [Ehrenreich's] prose makes this an essential purchase' Independent
In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and ''savage'', Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greek''s worship of Dionysus to the medieval practices of Christianity as a ''danced religion''. Exhilarating in its scholarly range, humane, witty and impassioned, Dancing in the Streets will generate debate and soul-searching.
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