Going to the Palais: A Social And Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960
Author:   James Nott (Lecturer in Modern History, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199605194


Pages:   342
Publication Date:   03 September 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Going to the Palais: A Social And Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960


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Author:   James Nott (Lecturer in Modern History, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.674kg
ISBN:  

9780199605194


ISBN 10:   019960519
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   03 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Dancing, the Dance Hall Industry, and its Audience 1: The Birth of the Palais: Dancing and Dance Halls, 1918-1939 2: Wartime Boom: Dancing and the Dance Hall Industry at War, 1939-1945 3: Rise and Fall: The Golden Age of the Dance Hall, 1945-1960 4: The Development of Dancing in Britain 1918-1960 Part II: The Dance Hall and British Society, 1918-1960 5: Youth and the dance hall, 1918-1960 6: Women, Dancing and Dance Halls, 1918-1960 7: Romance and Intimacy in the Dance Hall Part III: Conflicts and Control: Moral Panic and the Dance Hall 1918-1960 8: Morality, Gender, and the Dance Hall 1918-60 9: Race and the Dance Hall 10: The 'Youth Problem' and the Dance Hall 1918-1960 Conclusion

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Meticulously researched. David Fowler, Times Higher Education


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James Nott is a social and cultural historian specialising in twentieth-century British culture and society. He is author of Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain (2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics, and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (2011). He is currently working on a history of masculinity in twentieth century Britain and the links between race and dance.

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