Dancing in the English style
Author: Allison Abra
ISBN: 9781526142627
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year first published: 26 Sep 2019
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781526142627
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year first published: 26 Sep 2019
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction, in a period when Britain participated in increasingly global markets of cultural production, consumption and exchange. -- .