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This review is from: ADVERSARIES OF DANCE: FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PRESENT (Paperback)
This is a particularly well-researched and comprehensive examination of opposition to dancing, especially by religious leaders and theologians, since before the Puritans. My background is in Renaissance dance, so I can't attest to the book's accuracy regarding the later periods, but the initial chapters on early antidance views are excellent. Sometimes Wagner fails to distinguish between Puritan and more mainstream Protestant reformers, but otherwise she provides an impressively thorough overview of antidance treatises and their arguments. This book is also pioneering in its scope; it examines common themes shared by antidance writers over four centuries and on two continents, and demonstrates how many later dance opponents borrowed heavily from their antidance predecessors.
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what every dancer should know,
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This review is from: Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present (Hardcover)
Despite what another reviewer said, this book is not abouta woman and her dog. It tells who the people are who are against dancing. It documents how fiercely opposed they were up to the early part of the 20th century, but unfortunately says little about later in the 20th century. I suspect the reviewer who said it was about a woman and her dog did not want you to read the book. Perhaps the reviewer was one of the people the book is about.
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Excellent, I think?,
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This review is from: ADVERSARIES OF DANCE: FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PRESENT (Paperback)
I found this book quite profound, yet mysterious and confusing. Perhaps my knowledge of classical dance is a bit outdated, but I was in Cats. I would have liked more pictures. Despite all of these things I was enlightened by this cryptic tale of a woman and her dog.
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When Increase Mather penned "An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing," the first extant antidance treatise written in America, he drew on a long tradition of authority from Continental and British scholars. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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When Increase Mather penned "An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing," the first extant antidance treatise written in America, he drew on a long tradition of authority from Continental and British scholars. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dance opponents, antidance treatises, antidance literature, antidance attitudes, closed dance position, dance adversaries, arguments against dancing, itinerant dance, fervent exhorter, group figure dances, disorderly dancing, dance opposition, dance advocates, dance hall inspector, opposing dance, etiquette authorities, fact that dancing, fad dances, etiquette writers, dance facilities, courtesy writers, aesthetic dancing, dance manuals, basse dance, commercial dance halls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Increase Mather, New England, Cotton Mather, Billy Sunday, George Whitefield, United States, San Francisco, World War, Literary Digest, Religious History, American Tract Society, Civil War, Dance Horizons, Middle Ages, Kansas City, May Christians Dance, Jesus Christ, Old Testament, Oxford University Press, Disciples of Christ, Magnalia Christi, Missouri Synod, Russel Nye, Seventh Commandment New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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