Dancing in the Streets

A History of Collective Joy

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

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Paperback | 5 May 2008 | Edition Number 1

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This book explores the common characteristics of the communal celebrations displayed by cultures from all parts of the world and throughout history.

Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and savage, Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practices of Christianity as a danced religion. Exhilarating in its scholarly range, humane, witty and impassioned, Dancing in the Streets will generate debate and soul searching.

Industry Reviews

'Witty and quizzical - Her lightness of touch is commendable' Simon Callow, Guardian 'Dancing in the Streets is a genuine triumph of popular critical scholarship - the punchy elegance of her prose makes this an essential purchase' Independent

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