Adversaries of dance : from the Puritans to the present / Ann Wagner.
Adversaries of dance : from the Puritans to the present / Ann Wagner.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
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N792.80973/3
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English
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xvi, 442 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Pre-Reformation Tradition -- 2. The Voices of Protestant Reformers -- 3. The Puritans in New England: The Seventeenth Century -- 4. The Gentry and the Awakening: The Eighteenth Century -- 5. Early Evangelicals and American Etiquette: 1800-1839 -- 6. The Evangelical Mainstream and Radical Refo...
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
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Illinois
Date Published
c1997.
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Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial "dance palace," or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral - more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four c...
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Adversaries of dance : from the Puritans to the present / Ann Wagner.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1997.
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N792.80973/3
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74VvPPDJraVA
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ISBN
0252065905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252022746 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252022742 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252065903 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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792.80973
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991005472409702626
