Sorry I don't dance : why men refuse to move / Maxine Leeds Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Maxine Leeds, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male dancers--Social conditions.

Male dancers.

Men--Social life and customs.

Men.

Masculinity.

Gender identity in dance.

Dance--Sociological aspects.

Dance.

Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

If you want to learn about masculinity, ask a man if he likes to dance. One man in this study answered, "Music is something that goes on inside my head, and is sort of divorced from, to a large extent, the rest of my body." How did this man's head become divorced from his body? To answer this question, Maxine Craig sought out men who love music but hate to dance. Combining interviews, participant observation, and archival research, Sorry I Don't Dance uncovers the recent origins of cultural assumptions regarding sex, race, and the capacity to dance. From the beginning of the twentieth century through the Swing Era young men of all races danced. But in the 1960s suburbanization, homophobia, and fragmentation of music cultures drove white men from the dance floor, and feminized, sexualized, and racialized dance. Sorry I Don't Dance reveals how changing beliefs concerning gender, race, class, and sexuality over the past half-century have redefined what it means to be a man in America. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Search for Dancing Men 3

2 Who Killed the New Man? 20

3 Dancing in Uniform 54

4 Sad Sack's Sons: Dancing in the Postwar Years 73

5 Sex or "Just Dancing" 205

6 Home Schooling 133

7 Stepping On and Across Boundaries 163

8 How to Solve the Mind/Body Problem 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199845279

0199845271

9780199845293

0199845298

OCLC:

850213338