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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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There is no harm in dancing, by W. E. Penn, with an introduction by Rev. J. H. Stribling ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED
St. Louis, Mo., L. E. Kline, 1884.
SUMMARY
The basic premise in this antidance treatise is typical of this genre of dance literature; namely, dance is bad for the health and is a waste of money. The author utilizes a novel approach and uses trees as metaphors to support his arguments. Some trees are "not comely to look upon, but the fruit very good." Other trees have dangerous fruit, and the author concludes that samples of the fruit found on the tree of dancing include "pride, lasciviousness, lying, drunkenness, embezzlement, fornication, cruelty, idolatry, prostitution, abortion, and assassination." The manual was reissued in 1886 as The upas tree.
NOTES
Published later under title: The upas tree ...
SUBJECTS
Dance--Moral and ethical aspects.
Antidance Literature.
MEDIUM
58 p. 15 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1741 .P4
DIGITAL ID
musdi 136 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.136
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