Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen 9780822357575

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Автор: Tucker Sherrie
Название: Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen
ISBN: 9780822357575
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Танцы

Представления в варьете, мюзик-холле, кабаре

Социальная история и история культуры

ISBN-10: 0822357577
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 408
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 17.10.2014
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 36 illustrations
Размер: 226 x 158 x 23
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Gender studies: women, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Подзаголовок: The social geography of memory at the hollywood canteen
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening night, when the crowds were so thick that Bette Davis had to enter through the bathroom window to give her welcome speech, the storied dance floor where movie stars danced with soldiers has been the subject of much U.S. nostalgia about the "Greatest Generation." Drawing from oral histories with civilian volunteers and military guests who danced at the wartime nightclub, Sherrie Tucker explores how jitterbugging swing culture has come to represent the war in U.S. national memory. Yet her interviewees varied experiences and recollections belie the possibility of any singular historical narrative. Some recall racism, sexism, and inequality on the nightclubs dance floor and in Los Angeles neighborhoods, dynamics at odds with the U.S. democratic, egalitarian ideals associated with the Hollywood Canteen and the "Good War" in popular culture narratives. For Tucker, swing dancings torque—bodies sharing weight, velocity, and turning power without guaranteed outcomes—is an apt metaphor for the jostling narratives, different perspectives, unsteady memories, and quotidian acts that comprise social history.

Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen, Tucker Sherrie