This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and prese[...]

The period 1870 to 1920 in England was witness to a revolution in social dancing. Where once London Society waltzed genteelly and exclusively around the opulent ball rooms of its private mansions and palaces, the rising, wealthy middle classes now tangoed and foxtrotted across the new dance floors o[...]