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

by Carol Martin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878057013
• ISBN13: 9780878057016
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"