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Dancing in the Streets

A History of Collective Joy

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 From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.

Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks. Though suppressed by elites who fear the undermining of social hierarchies, outbreaks of group revelry still persist, Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports.

Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets shows that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and thereby envision a peaceable future.

©2006 Barbara Ehrenreich (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc. Amériques Anthropologie Antiquité Coutumes et traditions Europe Sciences sociales

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"A serious look at communal celebrations, well documented and presented with assurance and flair." ( Kirkus Reviews)
"Ehrenreich writes with grace and clarity in a fascinating, wide-ranging, and generous account." ( Publishers Weekly)
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For some years I've had a theory: that the Anglo male anxiety about dancing is a hangover from the colonial era when their cultural forefathers in the British Empire were exploring the world. It's exciting to find a book that not only supports this idea but ties it with the modern experiences of passive consumption, mass spectacle and festive resistance. I feel renewed purpose in my pursuit of the art of dance, understanding better the value of this collective cultural art form and source of much joy and healing.

So grateful to have found this book

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