Spectacle, Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain, 1960-1990

This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic. Nevertheless continuities can be found, and those are what this book examines. In dancing, it answers how we moved from the self-control that formed the basis for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stratton, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Places to Dance
  • 2. Music for Dancing
  • 3. Glam Rock and the Society of Spectacle
  • 4. Sexuality and Performance in Glam Rock
  • 5. The New Romantics: Living in the Society of the Spectacle
  • 6. Learning to Rave