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Dancing in the Streets

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429904658
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one 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. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: 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 French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from 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. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation

Dancing in the Streets

Author : Nina Darrell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475989946
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Nina Darrell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawning of time, human beings have been spiritual in nature. Every person has an inborn spiritual self to discover. The universe gives everyone clues that can potentially alter and shape their life, but they are often missed or not fully understood. We are living in an age of spirit, and spirit's desire is to inspire, guide and transform every life. Dancing in the Streets seeks to put you in touch with the language of spirit and enhance your personal connection to the divine. Through synchronistic and spiritual stories and anecdotes, author Nina Darrell offers openings into the language of spirit in new ways. Learn how to interpret spirit's guidance for your life, and discover where spirit has been leading you all along. You can be inspired and engage with a universe that is always willing to teach and communicate with you. Are you ready to learn?

Dancing in the Streets

Author : Unger, Steven
Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1681140691
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Unger, Steven and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now and then, you still can see the tattered remains of a bumper sticker exclaiming: “If you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there!” But Steven P. Unger is an exception to the rule—he took notes. As a result, his novel Dancing in the Streets is replete with unforgotten and unforgettable images of events and scenes that have long been lost in a smoke-filled haze. From the Merry Pranksters’ Wavy Gravy teaching breathing lessons outside Nixon’s first Inaugural Ball to a near-fatal encounter with Charles de Gaulle’s Republican Guard in Paris, there are compelling scenes from beginning to end no less cinematically vivid for the fact that they’re real. And while the story-chapters of Dancing in the Streets have more than just a ring of truth to them along with generous helpings of riotous comedy, there is also a compelling mystery haunting Unger’s alter ego, Steven Strazza: a deathbed revelation that leads to the discovery of long-buried secrets of murders affecting families on three different continents.

Dancing from the Streets of Alajuela 3

Author : Tecumapese Morning Star
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387981080
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Dancing From the Streets of Alajuela

Author : Tecumapese Morning Star
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387978365
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Dancing from the Streets of Prague 2

Author : Tecumapese Morning Star
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387954709
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Dancing from the Streets of Prague 3

Author : Tecumapese Morning Star
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387956000
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Dancing in the Streets

Author : Clifford Hanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Clifford Hanley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing in the Streets

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the human desire for collective joy.

Modernism in the Streets

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784784990
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Modernism in the Streets written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a masterpiece of the literature on modernism. But like many New York intellectuals, the essay was his characteristic form, accommodating his multifarious interests and expressing his protean, searching exuberant mind. This collection includes early essays from and on the radical '60s, on New York City, on literary figures from Kafka to Pamuk, and late essays on rock, hip hop, and gentrification. Concluding with his last essay, completed just before his death in 2013, this book is Berman's intellectual autobiography, tracing his career as a thinker through the way he read the 'signs in the street'.

The Beach Beneath the Streets

Author : Benjamin Shepard
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438436211
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Beach Beneath the Streets written by Benjamin Shepard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City—queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists—as they transform streets, piers, and vacant lots into everyday sites for autonomy, imagination, identity formation, creativity, problem solving, and even democratic renewal. Through ethnographic accounts of contests over New York City's public spaces that highlight the tension between resistance and repression, Shepard and Smithsimon identify how changes in the control of public spaces—parks, street corners, and plazas—have reliably foreshadowed elites' shifting designs on the city at large. With an innovative taxonomy of public space, the authors frame the ways spaces as diverse as gated enclaves, luxury shopping malls, collapsing piers and street protests can be understood in relation to one another. Synthesizing the fifty-year history of New York's neoliberal transformation and the social movements which have opposed the process, The Beach Beneath the Streets captures the dynamics at work in the ongoing shaping of urban spaces into places of repression, expression, control, and creativity.

Site Dance

Author : Melanie Kloetzel
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059003
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Site Dance written by Melanie Kloetzel and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, site-specific dance has grown in popularity. In the wake of groundbreaking work by choreographers who left traditional performance spaces for other venues, more and more performances are cropping up on skyscrapers, in alleyways, on trains, on the decks of aircraft carriers, and in a myriad of other unexpected locations worldwide. In Site Dance, the first anthology to examine site-specific dance, editors Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik explore the work that choreographers create for nontraditional performance spaces and the thinking behind their creative choices. Combining interviews with and essays by some of the most prominent and influential practitioners of site dance, they look at the challenges and rewards of embracing alternative spaces. The close examinations of the work of artists like Meredith Monk, Joanna Haigood, Stephan Koplowitz, Heidi Duckler, Ann Carlson, and Eiko Otake provide important insights into why choreographers leave the theatre to embrace the challenges of unconventional venues. Site Dance also includes more than 80 photographs of site-specific performances, revealing how the arts, and movement in particular, can become part of and speak to our everyday lives. Celebrating the often unexpected beauty and juxtapositions created by site dance, the book is essential reading for anyone curious about the way that these choreographers are changing our experience of the world one step at a time.

Dancing in the Street

Author : Robert Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780563369967
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Street written by Robert Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanies the major TV series shown on ABC recently.

New Orleans Suite

Author : Lewis Watts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520955323
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Suite written by Lewis Watts and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seeking to counter inadequate and often pejorative accounts of the people and place that give New Orleans its soul. Focusing for the most part on the city’s African American community, New Orleans Suite is a story about people: how bad things have happened to them in the long and short run, how they have persevered by drawing upon and transforming their cultural practices, and what they can teach us about citizenship, politics, and society.

Perspectives on American Dance

Author : Jennifer Atkins
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065658
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on American Dance written by Jennifer Atkins and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing embodies cultural history and beliefs, and each dance carries with it features of the place where it originated. Influenced by different social, political, and environmental circumstances, dances change and adapt. American dance evolved in large part through combinations of multiple styles and forms that arrived with each new group of immigrants. Perspectives on American Dance is the first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume and its companion show how social experience, courtship, sexualities, and other aspects of life in America are translated through dancing into spatial patterns, gestures, and partner relationships. This volume of Perspectives on American Dance features essays by a young generation of authors who write with familiarity about their own era, exploring new parameters of identity and evaluating a wide variety of movement practices being performed in spaces beyond traditional proscenium stages. Topics include "dorky dancing" on YouTube; same-sex competitors on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance; racial politics in NFL touchdown dances; the commercialization of flash mobs; the connections between striptease and corporate branding; how 9/11 affected dance; the criminalization of New York City club dancing; and the joyous ironies of hipster dance. This volume emphasizes how dancing is becoming more social and interactive as technology opens up new ways to create and distribute dance. The accessible essays use a combination of movement analysis, thematic interpretation, and historical context to convey the vitality and variety of American dance. They offer new insights on American dance practices while simultaneously illustrating how dancing functions as an essential template for American culture and identity. Contributors: Jennifer Atkins | Jessica Berson | J. Ellen Gainor | Patsy Gay | Ansley Jones | Kate Mattingly | Hannah Schwadron | Sally Sommer, Ph.D. | Ina Sotirova | Dawn Springer | Michelle T. Summers | Latika L. Young | Tricia Henry Young

Is Music

Author : John Taggart
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321041
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Is Music written by John Taggart and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering the best work from nearly forty years of a important innovator in American poetry

The Blackest Streets

Author : Sarah Wise
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162238
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Blackest Streets written by Sarah Wise and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The Times A powerful exploration of the seedy side of Victorian London by one of our most promising young historians. In 1887 government inspectors were sent to investigate the Old Nichol, a notorious slum on the boundary of Bethnal Green parish, where almost 6,000 inhabitants were crammed into thirty or so streets of rotting dwellings and where the mortality rate ran at nearly twice that of the rest of Bethnal Green. Among much else they discovered that the decaying 100-year-old houses were some of the most lucrative properties in the capital for their absent slumlords, who included peers of the realm, local politicians and churchmen. The Blackest Streets is set in a turbulent period of London's history when revolution was in the air. Award-winning historian Sarah Wise skilfully evokes the texture of life at that time, not just for the tenants but for those campaigning for change and others seeking to protect their financial interests. She recovers Old Nichol from the ruins of history and lays bare the social and political conditions that created and sustained this black hole which lay at the very heart of the Empire. A revelatory and prescient read about cities, class and inequality, the message at the heart of The Blackest Streets still resonates today.