Dancing in the English style ：Consumption, Americanisation and national identity in Britain, 1918–50 ( Studies in Popular Culture )

Publication subTitle ：Consumption, Americanisation and national identity in Britain, 1918–50

Publication series ： Studies in Popular Culture

Author： Abra Allison

Publisher： Manchester University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781526105943

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781784994334

Subject： E19 military history;K History and Geography;K1 World History;K5 European History

Keyword：世界史,欧洲史,历史、地理,军事史

Language： ENG

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Chapter

General editor’s foreword

Introduction

1 Dancing mad! The modernisation of popular dance

2 Who makes new dances? The dance profession and the evolution of style

3 At the palais: the dance hall industry and the standardisation of experience

4 The dance evil: gender, sexuality and the representation of popular dance

5 English style: foreign culture, race and the Anglicisation of popular dance

6 Doing the Lambeth Walk: novelty dances and the commodification of the nation

7 Dancing democracy in wartime Britain

8 The ‘infernal jitterbug’ and the transformation of popular dance

Epilogue

Select bibliography

Index

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