Dance Floor Democracy

Name: Dance Floor Democracy
Brand: Duke University Press
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The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen

Autor: Sherrie Tucker

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Wydawca: Duke University Press

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Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home-front nig...

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Autor

Sherrie Tucker

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2014

strony

408

EAN

9780822357421

ISBN

0822357429

Enbook ID

04731584

Wydawca

Duke University Press

Waga

680

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 28

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Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home-front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening night, when the crowds were so thick that Bette Davis had to enter through the bathroom window to give her welcome speech, the storied dance floor where movie stars danced with soldiers has been the subject of much U.S. nostalgia about the "Greatest Generation." Drawing from oral histories with civilian volunteers and military guests who danced at the wartime nightclub, Sherrie Tucker explores how jitterbugging swing culture has come to represent the war in U.S. national memory. Yet her interviewees' varied experiences and recollections belie the possibility of any singular historical narrative. Some recall racism, sexism, and inequality on the nightclub's dance floor and in Los Angeles neighborhoods, dynamics at odds with the U.S. democratic, egalitarian ideals associated with the Hollywood Canteen and the "Good War" in popular culture narratives. For Tucker, swing dancing's torque--bodies sharing weight, velocity, and turning power without guaranteed outcomes--is an apt metaphor for the jostling narratives, different perspectives, unsteady memories, and quotidian acts that comprise social history.

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