Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture of the 1920s and 1930sUniversity Press of Mississippi, 1994 - 182 страница 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 of authentic pain with staged displays that made dance marathons a national craze. Within the well-controlled space of theatre they revealed actual life's unpredictability and inconsistencies, and, indeed, the frightful aspects of social Darwinism. In this grotesque theatrical setting we see also a horrifying metaphor - the ailing nation grappling with difficult times. |
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... changed from hourly endurance contests to entertainment spectacles . Finally , from 1929 to 1934 , as the Depression deepened , the endurance contests came to display the full panoply of characteristics that still marks them in the ...
... changed from hourly endurance contests to entertainment spectacles . Finally , from 1929 to 1934 , as the Depression deepened , the endurance contests came to display the full panoply of characteristics that still marks them in the ...
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... changed radically between 1923 and the 1930s . The loose living , gangsterism , and devil- may - care attitudes of the high - flying 1920s steadily changed into the grim , grind - it - out 1930s . Instead of a tolerance supported by ...
... changed radically between 1923 and the 1930s . The loose living , gangsterism , and devil- may - care attitudes of the high - flying 1920s steadily changed into the grim , grind - it - out 1930s . Instead of a tolerance supported by ...
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... changed enormously . They were called speed derbies or steeplechase derbies and were adapted from the elimination features that had come in with walka- thons . Speed derbies featured contestants in running shorts and hel- mets ...
... changed enormously . They were called speed derbies or steeplechase derbies and were adapted from the elimination features that had come in with walka- thons . Speed derbies featured contestants in running shorts and hel- mets ...
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COMMON HEROES | 3 |
THE DANCE DERBY OF THE CENTURY | 22 |
FOR NO GOOD REASON | 40 |
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