Dancing In The Streets

A History Of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich (Y)

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English

Granta
01 July 2008

Social & cultural history; Society & Social Sciences; Cultural studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social & cultural anthropology

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 Greeks' 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.

By: Barbara Ehrenreich (Y)
Imprint: Granta
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 232g
ISBN: 9781847080080
ISBN 10: 1847080081
Publication Date: 01 July 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy

Witty and quizzical ... Her lightness of touch is commendable -- Simon Callow * Guardian * Dancing in the Streets is a genuine triumph of popular critical scholarship - the punchy elegance of her prose makes this an essential purchase * Independent * A sparkling history of mass festivity, from Dionysian cults through ecstatic slave rites to rock'n'roll, it also, in sober vein, records its suppression and containment by disquieted elites and concludes with meditations on some deep-seated troubles of our own age -- Gareth Dale * Times Higher Education Supplement *