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Sorry I Don't Dance - Why Men Refuse to Move (Hardcover, New)
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Sorry I Don't Dance - Why Men Refuse to Move (Hardcover, New)
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That men don't dance is a common stereotype. As one man tried to
explain, "Music is something that goes on inside my head, and is
sort of divorced from, to a large extent, the rest of my body." How
did this man's head become divorced from his body? While it may
seem natural and obvious that most white men don't dance, it is
actually a recent phenomenon tied to the changing norms of gender,
race, class, and sexuality. Combining archival sources, interviews,
and participant observation, Sorry I Don't Dance analyzes how,
within the United States, recreational dance became associated with
women rather than men, youths rather than adults, and ethnic
minorities rather than whites. At the beginning of the twentieth
century and World War II, lots of ordinary men danced. In fact,
during the first two decades of the twentieth century dance was so
enormously popular that journalists reported that young people had
gone "dance mad" and reformers campaigned against its moral
dangers. During World War II dance was an activity associated with
wholesome masculinity, and the USO organized dances and supplied
dance partners to servicemen. Later, men in the Swing Era danced,
but many of their sons and grandsons do not. Turning her attention
to these contemporary wallflowers, Maxine Craig talks to men about
how they learn to dance or avoid learning to dance within a culture
that celebrates masculinity as white and physically constrained and
associates both femininity and ethnically-marked men with
sensuality and physical expressivity. In this way, race and gender
get into bodies and become the visible, common sense proof of
racial and gender difference.
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