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- catalog abstract ""Wendy Buonaventura describes for the first time the world of dance through women's eyes. She moves gracefully across a kaleidoscope of cultures, from the delicious tango of Buenos Aires ... to Paris and the bawdy, leggy cancan dancers of the Moulin Rouge ... to Chicago and New York, where African Americans cakewalked, Charlestoned, and shimmied into the public eye, creating "jazz" dance." "Along the way, the author pauses to consider Madonna and Princess Diana, ballet and anorexia, transvestism and cosmetic surgery. Here is a tale rich with anecdotes (such as the New Jersey girl picked up by police during the Roaring Twenties for dancing the Turkey Trot on her lunch hour) and often surprising facts (the first geishas, for example, were men). This is a book for lovers of dance and lovers of history alike, an introduction to a little known side of a cultural legacy - a book for anyone intrigued by the sublime, sexy, and downright surreal ways we find to strut our stuff."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13223581.
- catalog contributor b13223582.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Wendy Buonaventura describes for the first time the world of dance through women's eyes. She moves gracefully across a kaleidoscope of cultures, from the delicious tango of Buenos Aires ... to Paris and the bawdy, leggy cancan dancers of the Moulin Rouge ... to Chicago and New York, where African Americans cakewalked, Charlestoned, and shimmied into the public eye, creating "jazz" dance." "Along the way, the author pauses to consider Madonna and Princess Diana, ballet and anorexia, transvestism and cosmetic surgery. Here is a tale rich with anecdotes (such as the New Jersey girl picked up by police during the Roaring Twenties for dancing the Turkey Trot on her lunch hour) and often surprising facts (the first geishas, for example, were men). This is a book for lovers of dance and lovers of history alike, an introduction to a little known side of a cultural legacy - a book for anyone intrigued by the sublime, sexy, and downright surreal ways we find to strut our stuff."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "And God created devil-woman -- Sexual imposters -- Revolution on the dance floor -- Forbidden fruit -- Twentieth-century goddess -- Black bottoms -- Battle of the sexes -- Danse macabre -- Dance of the seven veils -- Still moving.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-301) and index.".
- catalog extent "312 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Something in the way she moves.".
- catalog identifier "0306813483 (hc)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Something in the way she moves.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : DaCapo Press,".
- catalog relation "Something in the way she moves.".
- catalog subject "796.8/082 22".
- catalog subject "Dance Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "GV1588.6 .B87 2004".
- catalog subject "Sex in dance History.".
- catalog subject "Women Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women dancers Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "And God created devil-woman -- Sexual imposters -- Revolution on the dance floor -- Forbidden fruit -- Twentieth-century goddess -- Black bottoms -- Battle of the sexes -- Danse macabre -- Dance of the seven veils -- Still moving.".
- catalog title "Something in the way she moves : dancing women from Salome to Madonna / Wendy Buonaventura.".
- catalog type "text".