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- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780805057232
- Book Title
- Dancing in the Streets : a History of Collective Joy
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Religion, Social Science, Self-Help, Psychology, History
- Topic
- Personal Growth / Happiness, Social History, Holidays / General, Social Psychology, Holidays (Non-Religious)
- Item Weight
- 21.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805057234
ISBN-13
9780805057232
eBay Product ID (ePID)
56969968
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dancing in the Streets : a History of Collective Joy
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Personal Growth / Happiness, Social History, Holidays / General, Social Psychology, Holidays (Non-Religious)
Features
Revised
Genre
Religion, Social Science, Self-Help, Psychology, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-046673
Reviews
“A fabulous book on carnival and ecstasy, skillfully arranged and brilliantly explained.” — Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love “Barbara Ehrenreich shows how and why people celebrate together, and equally what causes us to fear celebration. Here is the other side of ritual, whose dark side she explored in Blood Rites . She ranges in time from the earliest festivals drawn on cave walls to modern football crowds; she finds that festivities and ecstatic rituals have been a way to address personal ills like melancholy and shame, social ills as extreme as those faced by American slaves. Dancing in the Streets is itself a celebration of language — clear, funny, unpredictable. This is a truly original book.”–Richard Sennett, author of The Culture of the New Capitalism “A fabulous book on carnival and ecstasy, skillfully arranged and brilliantly explained.” — Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love, “A fabulous book on carnival and ecstasy, skillfully arranged and brilliantly explained.” — Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love “Barbara Ehrenreich shows how and why people celebrate together, and equally what causes us to fear celebration. Here is the other side of ritual, whose dark side she explored in Blood Rites . She ranges in time from the earliest festivals drawn on cave walls to modern football crowds; she finds that festivities and ecstatic rituals have been a way to address personal ills like melancholy and shame, social ills as extreme as those faced by American slaves. Dancing in the Streets is itself a celebration of language — clear, funny, unpredictable. This is a truly original book.”–Richard Sennett, author of The Culture of the New Capitalism “A fabulous book on carnival and ecstasy, skillfully arranged and brilliantly explained.” — Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love, ” A fabulous book on carnival and ecstasy, skillfully arranged and brilliantly explained.” — Robert Farris Thompson, author of “Tango: The Art History of Love””” ” Barbara Ehrenreich shows how and why people celebrate together, and equally what causes us to fear celebration. Here is the other side of ritual, whose dark side she explored in “Blood Rites,” She ranges in time from the earliest festivals drawn on cave walls to modern football crowds; she finds that festivities and ecstatic rituals have been a way to address personal ills like melancholy and shame, social ills as extreme as those faced by American slaves. “Dancing in the Streets” is itself a celebration of language — clear, funny, unpredictable. This is a truly original book.” — Richard Sennett, author of “The Culture of the New Capitalism””” ” A fabulous book on carnival and ecstasy, skillfully arranged and brilliantly explained.” — Robert Farris Thompson, author of “Tango: The Art History of Love”
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
394.26
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian, a fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites , Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species’ attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and “savage,” Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks’ worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a “danced religion.” Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites’ fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent “carnivalization” of sports. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future., From a bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes a fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
LC Classification Number
GT3940.E47 2007
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