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Dance floor democracy : the social geography of memory at the Hollywood Canteen / Sherrie Tucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Sherrie, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hollywood Canteen.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States.
- Memory.
- Dance--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
- Dance.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home-front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. The storied dance floor remains the subject of much U.S. national nostalgia for the ""Good War"" and the ""Greatest Generation."" By drawing from oral histories with civilian volunteers and military guests who danced at the wartime nightclub, Sherrie Tucker complicates the history of the Hollywood Canteen.</div>
- Contents:
- Prologue: dance floor democracy?
- Introduction: writing on a crowded dance floor
- On location: situating the Hollywood Canteen (and swing culture as national memory) in wartime Los Angeles
- Wrestling Hollywood to the map
- Cruising the Cahuenga Pass(t)
- Operating from the curbstone
- Patriotic jitterbugs: tracing the footsteps of the soldier-hostess dyad
- Dyad democracy
- Injured parties
- Torquing back
- Women in uniforms, men in aprons: dancing outside the soldier-hostess dyad
- The dyad from without
- The view from the mezzanine
- Men serving men
- Swing between the nation and the state
- (Un)American patrol: following the state on the dance floor of the nation
- The making(s) of national memory: Hollywood Canteen (the movie).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357575
- 0822357577
- 9780822376200
- 0822376202
- OCLC:
- 873034743
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