Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s

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Julie Malnig (Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University)

Dancing Black, Dancing White

Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s

Julie Malnig (Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
29 June 2023

Television; Music: styles & genres; History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies

"Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s offers a new look at the highly popular phenomenon of the televised teen dance program. These teen shows were incubators of new styles of social and popular dance and both reflected and shaped pressing social issues of the day. Often referred to as ""dance parties,"" the televised teen dance shows helped cultivate a nascent youth culture in the post-World War II era. The youth culture depicted on the shows, however, was primarily white. Black teenagers certainly had a youth culture of their own, but the injustice was glaring: Black culture was not always in evident display on the airwaves, as television, like the nation at large, was deeply segregated and appealed to a primarily white, homogenous audience. The crux of the book, then, is twofold: to explore how social and popular dance styles were created and disseminated within the new technology of television and to investigate how the shows both reflected and re-affirmed the racial politics and attitudes of the time. The 1950s was a watershed decade for American culture and dance. The era witnessed the ascendancy of rock and roll music and recorded sound, the rise of the teenager as a marketing demographic, the beginnings of television, and a new phase of the country's struggle with race. The story of televised teen dance told here is about Black and white teenagers wanting to dance to rock 'n' roll music despite the barriers placed on their ability to do so. It is also a story that fuses issues of race, morality, and sexuality. Dancing Black, Dancing White weaves together these elements to tell two stories: that of the different experiences of Black and white adolescents and their desires to have a space of their own where they could be seen, heard, appreciated, and understood."

By: Julie Malnig (Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 492g
ISBN: 9780197536254
ISBN 10: 0197536255
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 29 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julie Malnig is Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She is the author of Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance and the editor of Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. From 1999 to 2003, Professor Malnig served as editor of Dance Research Journal, an international scholarly publication in dance studies, for which she also served as the Editorial Board Chair from 2003 to 2006. In 2013, she was awarded NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.

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Dancing Black, Dancing White

Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s

Julie Malnig (Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University)

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Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s

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