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100	1		_aEhrenreich, Barbara
245	1	0	_aDancing in the streets : _ba history of collective joy _c/ Barbara Ehrenreich
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Metropolitan Books _c, 2007.
300			_a320 p. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-301) and index.
505	0		_aThe Archaic roots of ecstasy -- Civilization and backlash -- Jesus and Dionysus -- From the churches to the streets: the creation of carnival -- Killing carnival: reformation and repression -- A note on puritanism and military re form -- An epidemic of melancholy -- Guns against drums: imperialism encounters ecstasy -- Fascist spectacles -- The rock of rebellion -- Carnivalizing sports -- The possibility of revival.
520			_a"Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. She uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although 16th-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks to medieval Christianity. Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired uprisings and revolutions from France to the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
650		0	_aFestivals _x-History
650		0	_aFasts and feasts _x-History
650		0	_aSpectacular, The _x-History
650		0	_aCollective behavior _x-History
650		0	_aHappiness _x-History
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