Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad by Calabria, Frank M.

Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780879725709)

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Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad by Calabria, Frank M.

Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad

$19.95
Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad by Calabria, Frank M.

Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Dance marathons were a phenomenally popular fad during the manic 1920s and depressive 1930s. What began as a craze soon developed into a money-making business which lasted 30 years. Some 20,000 contestants and show personnel participated in these events; audiences, the majority women, totalled in the millions. "A Poor Man's Nightclub," dance marathons were the dog-end of American show business, a bastard form of entertainment which borrowed from vaudeville, burlesque, night club acts and sports.

Author: Frank M. Calabria
ISBN-10: 0879725702
ISBN-13: 9780879725709
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/1993
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

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