Spectacle, fashion and the dancing experience in Britain, 1960-1990

Spectacle, fashion and the dancing experience in Britain, 1960-1990 / Jon Stratton.

This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic. Nevertheless continuities can be found, and those are what this book examines. In dancing, it answers how we moved from the self-control that formed the basis for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stratton, Jon (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of subcultures and popular music.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Dance > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Dance > Social aspects
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: those dancing years
  • Dancing to records in the 1960s
  • Music for dancing in the 1960s
  • Glam Rock and the Society of Spectacle
  • Glam rock: sexuality, performance and spectacle
  • The New Romantics: dancing in the society of the spectacle
  • Learning to Rave: the construction of Rave in the UK in the 1980s.

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