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Books: Social - General



Cover imageBallroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: a social and popular dance reader.

Author: Malnig, Julie

Published: 2008

This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated,... [full description]

Paperback [5541-PB] £ 18.99 Add to order


Dance in sequence - smile in harmony.

Author: Price, Pat

Published: 1997

A collection of poems and cartoons about sequence dancing.

Paperback [0825-PB] £ 5.65 Add to order


Cover imageDance marathons, performing American culture in the 1920's and 1930's.

Author: Martin, Carol

Published: 1994

This penetrating analysis of one of the most extraordinary crazes ever to strike the USA details how dance marathons... [full description]

Paperback [0272-PB] £ 16.95 Add to order


Cover imageDance, drugs and escape: the club scene in literature, film and television since the late 1980s.

Author: Beeler, Stan

Published: 2007

In the late 1980s the rave phenomenon swept through the youth culture of the UK, incorporating the social stimulants of... [full description]

Paperback [5163-PB] £ 23.95 Add to order


Cover imageDancing across borders.

Author: Shay, Anthony

Published: 2008

This study describes and analyses the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms in America. Throughout the twentieth... [full description]

Paperback [5546-PB] £ 37.50 Add to order


Cover imageDancing in the streets, a history of collective joy.

Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara

Published: 2007

Investigative journalist Barbara Ehrenreich here explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that... [full description]

Hardback [5142-HB] £ 16.99 Add to order

Paperback [5142-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageFrankie Manning, ambassador of Lindy Hop.

Author: Manning, Frankie & Cynthia Millman

Published: 2007

In the early days of swing dancing, Frankie Manning stood out for his moves and his innovative routines. In this... [full description]

Hardback [5201-HB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imageGlamour addiction: inside the American ballroom dance industry.

Author: McMains, Juliet

Published: 2006

The first detailed look at the international phenomenon of DanceSport - a creative art, rigorous sport, popular... [full description]

Hardback [4970-HB] £ 15.95 Add to order


Cover imageHip Hop dance, meanings and messages.

Author: Huntington, Carla Stalling

Published: 2007

Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not... [full description]

Paperback [5146-PB] £ 32.95 Add to order


Cover imageHip-Hop and Urban dance.

Author: Fitzgerald, Tamsin

Published: 2008

A short, well illustrated introduction for advanced primary level children, providing a detailed look at the... [full description]

Paperback [5507-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order


A history of sequence dancing and script list.

Author: Whitworth, T. A.

Published: 1995

The development of sequence dancing from Victorian times to the present day.

Paperback [0822-PB] £ 7.95 Add to order


Idle hands.

Author: Burnett, John

Published: 1994

A history of unemployment in Britain over the last two hundred years, focusing on the experiences of working people in... [full description]

Paperback [1423-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order


The Jimmy Shand story.

Author: Cameron, Ian

Published: 1998

The life and work of Jimmy Shand, for over 50 years the king of Scottish dance band music.

Hardback [2521-HB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imageLatin and ballroom dance.

Author: Hodge, Susie

Published: 2008

A short, well illustrated introduction for advanced primary level children, providing a detailed look at the... [full description]

Paperback [5506-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe meaning of Tango: the story of Argentinian dance.

Author: Denniston, Christine

Published: 2007

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, The Meaning of Tango is the extraordinary story... [full description]

Hardback [5211-HB] £ 9.99 Add to order


Oh, how we danced!

Author: Casciani, Elizabeth

Published: 1994

The history of ballroom dancing in Scotland.

Paperback [1516-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order


Paris dances: textual choreographies in the Nineteenth-Century French novel.

Author: Cordova, Sarah Davies

Published: 1999

The relationship of social dance in real life and in fiction in 19th century France.

Hardback [0866-HB] £ 71.50 Add to order


Cover imageSatan in the dance hall.

Author: Giordano, Ralph G.

Published: 2008

Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City explores... [full description]

Paperback [5751-PB] £ 30.00 Add to order


Cover imageStrictly Come Dancing.

Author: Smith, Rupert

Published: 2005

The official behind-the-scenes guide to the first 3 series of the hit TV show, in which a group of celebrities try... [full description]

Hardback [4602-HB] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageStrictly Come Dancing: the official 2010 annual.

Author: Maloney, Alison

Published: 2009

A companion to the popular BBC TV show (Series Seven). The book includes interviews with celebrities taking part in the... [full description]

Hardback [5744-HB] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageTap and jazz dance.

Author: Gamble, Nikki

Published: 2008

A short, well illustrated introduction for advanced primary level children, providing a detailed look at the... [full description]

Paperback [5755-PB] £ 8.99 Add to order


Cover imageA time to dance, a time to die.

Author: Waller, John

Published: 2008

The true story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city, and the terrifying... [full description]

Hardback [5678-HB] £ 12.99 Add to order


Two by two: tango, two-step and the L A night.

Author: Babitz, Eve

Published: 1999

A fast paced swirl through the dancing and dance teaching scene in Los Angeles.

Hardback [1248-HB] £ 14.95 Add to order


Cover imageVernon and Irene Castle's ragtime revolution.

Author: Golden, Eve

Published: 2007

Vernon and Irene Castle popularised ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable... [full description]

Hardback [5289-HB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe wicked waltz and other scandalous dances.

Author: Knowles, Mark

Published: 2009

Popular social dances can reveal a lot about the lifestyle, culture, and social class of the people who perform them.... [full description]

Paperback [5646-PB] £ 49.50 Add to order



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