Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s Paperback - 1994
by Carol Martin
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This penetrating analysis of one of the most extraordinary fads ever to strike America details how dance marathons manifested a potent from of drama. Between the two world wars they were a phenomenon in which working-class people engaged in emblematic struggles for survival. Battling to outlast other contestants, the dancers hoped to become notable. There was crippling exhaustion and anguish among the contenders, but ultimately it was the coupling of authentic pain with staged displays that made dance marathons a national craze. Within the well-controlled space of theatre they revealed actual life's unpredictability and inconsistencies, and, indeed, the frightful aspects of social Darwinism. In this grotesque theatrical setting we see also a horrifying metaphor - the ailing nation grappling with difficult times.
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- Title Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s
- Author Carol Martin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 210
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
- Date 1994-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780878057016 / 0878057013
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.15 x 0.75 in (22.96 x 15.62 x 1.91 cm)
- Reading level 1290
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -, Dance marathons - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94012157
- Dewey Decimal Code 792.8
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Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/1994, Page 2012
- Publishers Weekly, 07/04/1994, Page 58
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