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Paperback Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s Book

ISBN: 0878057013

ISBN13: 9780878057016

Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s

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This penetrating analysis of one of the most extraordinary fads ever to strike America details how dance marathons manifested a potent from of drama. Between the two world wars they were a phenomenon in which working-class people engaged in emblematic struggles for survival. Battling to outlast other contestants, the dancers hoped to become notable. There was crippling exhaustion and anguish among the contenders, but ultimately it was the coupling...

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