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Dance Hall Days
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Author : Randy McBee
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2000-11-01
Dance Hall Days written by Randy McBee and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-01 with Social Science categories.
The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities. Conflict was inevitable as older generations attempted to preserve their traditions, values, and ethnic identities, while the young sought out the cheap amusements and sexual freedom which the urban landscape offered. At immigrant picnics, social clubs, and urban dance halls, Randy McBee discovers distinct and highly contested gender lines, proving that the battle between the ages was also one between the sexes. Free from their parents and their strict rules governing sexual conduct, working women took advantage of their time in dance halls to challenge conventional gender norms. They routinely passed certain men over for dances, refused escorts home, and embraced the sensual and physical side of dance to further accentuate their superior skills and ability on the dance floor. Most men felt threatened by women's displays of empowerment and took steps to thwart the changes taking place. Accustomed to street corners, poolrooms, saloons, and other all-male get-togethers, working men tried to transform the dance hall into something that resembled these familiar hangouts. McBee also finds that men frequently abandoned the commercial dance hall for their own clubs, set up in the basements of tenement flats. In these hangouts, working men established rules governing intimacy and leisure that allowed them to regulate the behavior of the women who attended club events. The collective manner in which they behaved not only affected the organization of commercial leisure but also men and women's struggles with and against one another to define the meaning of leisure, sexuality, intimacy, and even masculinity.
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Author : Randy McBee
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2000-11
Dance Hall Days written by Randy McBee and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11 with History categories.
At immigrant picnics, social clubs, and urban dance halls, Randy McBee discovers distinct and highly contested gender lines, proving that the battle between the ages was also one between the sexes."--BOOK JACKET.
Dancehall Days
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Author : Michael O'Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Gill Books
Release Date : 2014
Dancehall Days written by Michael O'Reilly and has been published by Gill Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Photography categories.
Blending dynamic live shots with intimate portraits and candids, Dancehall Days is a collection of over 300 stunning black-and-white photographs drawn from Michael O'Reilly's personal archive.
Our Dancing Days
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Author : Matty Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher: William Kingsfield Publishers
Release Date : 2022-04-20
Our Dancing Days written by Matty Dalrymple and has been published by William Kingsfield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-20 with Fiction categories.
An angry lover who turned a place of dance and light into a place of death. A much-missed husband in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who will be waiting for Ann at the top of the stairs? "A hall, a hall, give room!—And foot it, girls.— More light, you knaves! And turn the tables up, And quench the fire. The room is grown too hot.— Ah, sirrah, this unlooked-for sport comes well.— Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet, For you and I are past our dancing days." —William Shakespeare, "Romeo & Juliet" An Ann Kinnear Suspense Short from Matty Dalrymple, author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels, including Book 1: THE SENSE OF DEATH.
Dance Hall A Novel Of Sing Sing
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Author : David Pietrusza
language : en
Publisher: Church & Reid Books
Release Date : 2014-11-15
Dance Hall A Novel Of Sing Sing written by David Pietrusza and has been published by Church & Reid Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-15 with Fiction categories.
A Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing wife, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converge in 1930s Sing Sing heading toward death, redemption-and Ebbets Field. *** "DANCE HALL: A NOVEL OF SING SING" unveils a grand and riveting tale of a violent and desperate past, unforgettably narrated in a gripping, often wry, fashion--recorded in tears and punctuated in--rarely innocent--blood. Dance Hall flawlessly transports readers to a seedy, volatile 1930s underworld where love and honor and redemption jostle for mere survival with greed and lust and betrayal. Dance Hall reveals the story of a Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing Filipina spouse, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converging in Sing Sing, destined for love, death, forgiveness, redemption--and Ebbets Field. Dance Hall reveals a page-turning web of perfectly-balanced back stories: of a young parish priest gone wrong and then right again, of a brutal Bowery killer with escape on his mind, a con man with the vestige of a conscience, a thuggish Garment District goon with a devout sister, a tell-all Broadway gossip columnist who can make or break you, a rat of an accomplice, a once-disgraced private detective who now surprisingly elevates a principle above a paycheck. Read Dance Hall and you live and breathe life inside cold and desperate prison halls and cells; sweaty and often violent Brooklyn dime-a-dance dance halls; threadbare tenements, back-alley speakeasies where anything you wanted badly enough was for sale; the offices of the rich and powerful and still conflicted; and of a waiting area for Sing Sing's "Death Row" called "The Dance Hall"--all while returning you to Depression days when hope reigned supreme. Because hope was all you had.
Memoirs Of Dance Hall Romeo
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-06-13
Memoirs Of Dance Hall Romeo written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-13 with categories.
Let S Dance
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Author : Peter Young
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2002-09-25
Let S Dance written by Peter Young and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-25 with History categories.
Let's Dance: A Celebration of Ontario's Dance Halls and Summer Dance Pavilions is a nostalgic musical journey, recapturing the unforgettable music of youth and lasting friendships, the days when the live mellow sounds of Big Bands wafted through the air -- Louis Armstrong, the Dorsey Brothers, Bert Niosi, Art Hallman, Johnny Downs, Mart Kenney, Bobby Kinsman, Ronnie Hawkins .... Throughout the 1920s to the '60s, numerous legendary entertainers drew thousands of people to such memorable venues as the Brant Inn in Burlington, Dunn's Pavilion in Bala, the Stork Club at Port Stanley, to the Club Commodore in Belleville and the Top Hat Pavilion in North Bay -- and the hundreds of other popular dance venues right across Ontario. From the days of jitney dancing through the introduction of jazz and the Big Bands era to the sounds of some of Ontario's best rock groups, people of all ages came to dance and some to find romance on soft summer nights.
The Dance Hall
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Author : Steven Reak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-20
The Dance Hall written by Steven Reak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-20 with categories.
At a champagne brunch held at an old dance hall, there are gossipers, adulterers and possible murderers after the Tondy brothers got killed. Edward and Betty are a middle-aged couple ready to retire from farming with ten kids. Some of their kids are in their thirties, with families of their own, and some of them are still in middle school. Their oldest son Harold, and his wife Laura, are two love struck adults still trying to make their marriage work, while their daughter Donna, and her boyfriend Nelson, are struggling to make their relationship work. Tim is one of Edward and Betty's sons. Everyone is enjoying themselves and waiting for the band to start up. Terry is a friend of the family. "Terry has a green handkerchief in his shirt pocket. Find somebody else who has a green handkerchief and give it to Bonnie and she can wave it around in front of him. That oughta get his attention." "How's that gonna turn him on?" Theresa asks her sister at the champagne brunch at the dance hall in Lexington. "If we do things like that enough times, you know, keep pestering him, get in his face with stuff like that, maybe he'll come around." Walking from the bar area with a glass of champagne in her hand, their cousin, Susan, sees them. "Are you's still harassing that poor man? My God, his mother just passed away, last week. Don't you have any sympathy or any sense of decency? How long are you going to keep driving him crazy? You know he hates that stuff." "It's fun," Carol tells her, giggling. Later, Frank walks in the front door with a sad look on his face. "Terry was just killed in a car accident. He was distracted and missed a stop sign and T-boned another car. Terry and his young son were both killed." Not having heard the news yet, Linda shouts, "I can't wait to get back out on the dance floor. I wanna dance!" Linda exclaims happily. "Let's go, then!" Donna stands on the seat of the bright orange booth she's been sitting on and tries walking around Tim. She nearly knocks Tim over trying to get out and Tim's backside slides further and further down into the bench. Nelson starts erupting in laughter. "Dude! You should see the expression on your face! You look like you just got hit by a train!" He roars hard laughing. Tim tries straightening himself up and struggles to get out from underneath the table. Nelson roars again in laughter. "Dude! That is so funny!" Tim works at the state Capitol for the Governor. Their cousin, Danny Baldwin and Dennis Miller, a self-proclaimed know-it-all, square off in a funny, one sided mayoral debate. Meet the whole family. Endearing aunt Hannah, and the Reich's from Belle River, the Stepan brothers who feed off of each other like pigs in a blanket. Come and visit Lexington. You'll like it here.
See You At The Hall
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Author : Susan Gedutis
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2005-07
See You At The Hall written by Susan Gedutis and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07 with History categories.
An engaging look at Boston's golden era of Irish traditional music
Texas Dance Halls
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Author : Gail Louise Folkins
language : en
Publisher: Voice in the American West
Release Date : 2007
Texas Dance Halls written by Gail Louise Folkins and has been published by Voice in the American West this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Performing Arts categories.
"Blending literary and photo-journalism, history, and storytelling, essays examine eighteen Texas dance halls in terms of their music, culture, and community. Also considers the predominantly Czech and German heritage from which these halls evolved, as well as the cultural dynamics that enable them to continue as centers of community"--Provided by publisher.