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Designed for dancing : how midcentury records taught America to dance
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- Summary
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"This book presents a visually compelling collection of vintage dance record covers from the golden age of album cover design and discusses their contribution to the story of American identity"--
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- Creator
- Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- x, 540 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780262044332, 0262044331
- OCLC
- on1202732688
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-524) and index.
- Invitation to the dance -- The drum -- Let's learn to dance -- Time for dancing -- Folk dances -- Fashion : dressed for dancing -- Calypso -- Latin -- Designed for dancing -- Let's go out! -- Waltz -- Tango -- Rhumba -- Dream dancing -- Mambo -- Merengue -- Cha-cha-cha -- Limbo -- Hula -- Square dance -- "Set your polka feet a'dancing" -- Belly dance -- Mixing it up : hybrid albums -- The twist -- Dance craze : rock and roll, discotheque, and soul -- Dancing over a lifetime -- Let's have a dance party!
Subjects
- Dance music -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Dance -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Dance music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Popular music -- United States -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism.
- Popular music -- United States -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism.
- Sound recordings -- Album covers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.