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100 1 $aEhrenreich, Barbara.
245 10 $aDancing in the streets :$ba history of collective joy /$cBarbara Ehrenreich.
250 $a1st Holt paperbacks ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books,$c2007, ©2006.
300 $a320 pages ;$c21 cm
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500 $a"A Holt paperback."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: invitation to the dance -- The Archaic roots of ecstasy -- Civilization and backlash -- Jesus and Dionysus -- From the churches to the streets: the creation of carnival -- Killing carnival: reformation and repression -- A note on puritanism and military reform -- An epidemic of melancholy -- Guns against drums: imperialism encounters ecstasy -- Fascist spectacles -- The rock rebellion -- Carnivalizing sports -- The possibility of revival.
520 $a"Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. She uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although 16th-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks to medieval Christianity. Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired uprisings and revolutions from France to the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports.--From publisher description."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
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