TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wagner,Ann Louise
TI  - Adversaries of dance: from the Puritans to the present 
SN  - 0252022742 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - GV 1623 .W25 1997
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Dance
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Moral conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The Pre-Reformation Tradition --; 2; The Voices of Protestant Reformers --; 3; The Puritans in New England: The Seventeenth Century --; 4; The Gentry and the Awakening: The Eighteenth Century --; 5; Early Evangelicals and American Etiquette: 1800-1839 --; 6; The Evangelical Mainstream and Radical Reformers: 1840-60 --; 7; Conservatives, Liberals, and the City: 1865-89 --; 8; Embattled Fundamentalists and the Rhetoric of Moral Panic: 1890-1929 --; 9; Urban Reformers and the Dance Hall: 1908-40 --; 10; The Polemic Upstaged: 1930-69 and Beyond --; 11; The Nature of Dance and the Polemic in Reprise --; 12; Aesthetics, Morality, and Gender --; App. A; Bible Verses on Dance --; App. B; Known European Adversaries of Dance
N2  - Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial "dance palace," or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral - more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States
ER  -