Going to the palais : a social and cultural history of dancing and dance halls in Britain, 1918-1960 /

• Main Author: Nott, James J. (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Subjects: Χορός > Κοινωνικές απόψεις > Μεγάλη Βρετανία > Ιστορία > 20ος αιώνας

From the mid-1920s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain - a place rivalled only by the cinema and eventually to eclipse even that institution in popularity. 'Going to the palais' examines the history of this vital...