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- 020 __ |a 9781784994334 (hardcover)
- 040 __ |a ERASA |b eng |c ERASA |e rda |d CDX |d YDX |d OCLCF |d DLC
- 050 00 |a GV1645 |b .A37 2017
- 082 04 |a 793.3/1941 |2 23
- 099 __ |a CAL 022018029061
- 100 1_ |a Abra, Allison, |e author.
- 245 10 |a Dancing in the English style : |b consumption, Americanisation and national identity in Britain, 1918-50 / |c Allison Abra.
- 264 _1 |a Manchester : |b Manchester University Press, |c 2017.
- 300 __ |a xv, 287 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm.
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 490 1_ |a Studies in Popular Culture
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [266]-276) and index.
- 520 8_ |a Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. It describes the rise of modern ballroom dancing as Britain's predominant popular style, as well as the opening of hundreds of affordable dancing schools and purpose-built dance halls. It focuses in particular on the relationship between the dance profession and dance hall industry and the consumers who formed the dancing public. Together these groups negotiated the creation of a 'national' dancing style, which constructed, circulated, and commodified ideas about national identity. At the same time, the book emphasizes the global, exploring the impact of international cultural products on national identity construction, the complexities of Americanisation, and Britain's place in a transnational system of production and consumption that forged the dances of the Jazz Age.
- 650 _0 |a Dance |z Great Britain |x History |y 20th century.
- 830 _0 |a Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
- 950 __ |a SCNU |f J709.561/A158