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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
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Modern dances, by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Don Luigi Satori.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Colleg[e]ville, Ind., St. Joseph's Printing Office, 1910.
SUMMARY
Like other publications of its kind, this antidance treaty defends the dances of the Greeks and Romans as well as dances mentioned in the Bible on the grounds that they were performed by segregated sexes. With customary western bias, Sartori notes that when Christianity "supplanted Paganism, it found many objectionable practices and customs which it had to eradicate. One was dancing." The author objects both to waltzing, which he claims to be a violation of the Sixth Commandment, and the quadrille, which is "a malicious preparation to enjoy the mad rush to a close embrace." The manual was also published in German under the title Die modernen Tänze.
SUBJECTS
Dance--Religious aspects.
Antidance Literature.
MEDIUM
61, [1] p. incl. port. pl. 20 cm.
CALL NUMBER
GV1741 .S3
DIGITAL ID
musdi 208 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.208
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