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Dance in the City

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Helen Thomas

    1. Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  3. Stepping Out

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Ballroom Blitz

      • Helen Thomas, Nicola Miller
      Pages 89-110

    3. Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine

      • Maria Pini
      Pages 111-129

    4. Madame Smudge, Some Fossils, and Other Missing Links: Unearthing the Ballet Class

      • Lesley-Anne Sayers
      Pages 130-148

    5. Safe Sets: Women, Dance and ‘Communitas’

      • Barbara O’Connor
      Pages 149-172

  4. Border Country

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Nazism and the Call of the Jitterbug

      • Les Back
      Pages 175-197

    3. Aerobic Dance and the City: Individual and Social Space

      • Stacey Prickett
      Pages 198-217

    4. Dance and Erotica: The Construction of the Female Stripper

      • Sherril Dodds
      Pages 218-233

    5. Let’s Face the Music — and Dance?: Torvill and Dean — ‘Champagne on Ice’

      • Stephanie Jordan, Helen Thomas
      Pages 234-243

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 245-254
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This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. It highlights a diversity of dance forms and styles that can be witnessed in and around contemporary urban spaces: from dance halls to raves and the club striptease; from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance shows; from the ballet class, to fitness aerobics; and 'art' dance which situates itself in a dynamic relation to the city.

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  • Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK

    Helen Thomas

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