Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain
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Author_Rishona Zimring
Ballets Russes
Bell's Picture
Bell’s Picture
British modernism
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Cecil Sharp
dance and social change in Britain
Dance Floor
Dance Scene
dancing
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
english
English Dance
English Folk Dance Society
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folk
Folk Dance
Folk Dance Movement
Folk Dance Revival
Folk Revivalism
Frances Partridge
gender relations history
gwen
Gwen Raverat
interwar cultural studies
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
lambeth
Lambeth Walk
literary modernist analysis
Lydia Lopokova
Mass Ornament
Maud Karpeles
Night Mail
participatory dance research
raverat
revival
Social Dancing
society
String Quartet
therapeutic movement education
Vanessa Bell
walk
Woolf's Story
Woolf’s Story
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781409455769
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Social dance was ubiquitous in interwar Britain. The social mingling and expression made possible through non-theatrical participatory dancing in couples and groups inspired heated commentary, both vociferous and subtle. By drawing attention to the ways social dance accrued meaning in interwar Britain, Rishona Zimring redefines and brings needed attention to a phenomenon that has been overshadowed by other developments in the history of dance. Social dance, Zimring argues, haunted the interwar imagination, as illustrated in trends such as folk revivalism and the rise of therapeutic dance education. She brings to light the powerful figurative importance of popular music and dance both in the aftermath of war, and during Britain’s entrance into cosmopolitan modernity and the modernization of gender relations. Analyzing paintings, films, memoirs, a ballet production, and archival documents, in addition to writings by Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Vivienne Eliot, and T.S. Eliot, to name just a few, Zimring provides crucial insights into the experience, observation, and representation of social dance during a time of cultural transition and recuperation. Social dance was pivotal in the construction of modern British society as well as the aesthetics of some of the period’s most prominent intellectuals.
Rishona Zimring is Associate Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA.
