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6 avril 2021
- handle: 10670/1.cy5ty5
- isbn: 9781783747320
- eisbn: 9791036565144
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historiography folklore dance dance studies cultural memory Waltz Polka History Dance HIS054000 HBTBCiter ce document
Mats Nilsson, « 13. Dance and ‘Folk Devils’ », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.cy5ty5
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This chapter will discuss how new dances, especially when danced by young people, tend to be seen as a negative and even evil influence by elder members of society. By framing the discussion with the use of the concepts of ‘moral panic’ and ‘folk devils’ by the British sociologist Stanley Cohen and those influenced by his work, I want to place the Waltz and other couple dances as just one example of how social reactions create folk devils out of new dance forms in different historical context...