Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429904658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one 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. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: 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 French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from 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. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation
Dancing in the Streets
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429904658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one 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. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: 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 French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from 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. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429904658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one 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. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: 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 French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from 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. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation
Joyful Streets
Author: Linda Green
Publisher: Handmade Parade CIC
ISBN: 9781999878306
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Since it was launched ten years ago, the Handmade Parade in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire has grown into a major event which attracts spectators and artists from across the UK and around the world. This book tells the story of the artists, performers, volunteers and participants who have helped to make it such a success.
Publisher: Handmade Parade CIC
ISBN: 9781999878306
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Since it was launched ten years ago, the Handmade Parade in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire has grown into a major event which attracts spectators and artists from across the UK and around the world. This book tells the story of the artists, performers, volunteers and participants who have helped to make it such a success.
The Anamosa Prison Press
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Category : Prison periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Prison periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Hosannas of the Children and Other Short Sermons for Young Worshippers Or A Chime of Bells from the Little Sanctuary
Author: John Ross Macduff
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Category : Children's sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Children's sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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History of Champaign County, Ohio
Author: Evan P. Middleton
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Category : Champaign County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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Category : Champaign County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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The Works of Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Mahomet and His Successors
Author: Washington Irving
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The life of Napoleon Buonaparte. By W. Hazlitt, revised by his son
Author: William Hazlitt
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: William Hazlitt
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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