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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

 
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The author of the critically acclaimed Blood Rites examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations, reflecting the human nature as social beings, involving ecstatic revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks’ worship of Dionysus to the more recent “carnivalization” of sports. Simultaneous.

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[A] thought provoking and sober look at a delightfully unsober topic.
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Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fourteen books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. She lives in New York State.

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