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"'Dancing in the Streets' interweaves sources from historical
anthropology, philosophy, sociology, psychology, neuroscience and popular
cultural studies"
-- Financial Times Magazine
"...an oddly gripping book... Ehrenreich is on to something
here." -- Observer
"An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of
collective joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead" -- Terry Eagleton
"Barbara Erenreich wants to affirm the value of ecstatic group
celebration...(a)reporter's nose for subject and information" -- Scotland on Sunday
"Ehrenreich's analysis is fascinating, and seems intuitively
right... This is a good book, mostly because it makes you think"
-- Sunday Telegraph
"The title of the book alone did my weary heart good... a message
to be welcomed, pondered - and enjoyed." -- The Times
"This is a passionate argument in favour of communal
celebration... (It) opens an important subject to the general reader."
-- The Sunday Times
"This is a thought-provoking and sober look at a delightfully
unsober topic." -- London Review of Books
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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 Greek's 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.
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1862079544
- ISBN 13 9781862079540
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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