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Dancing in the Streets
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy | Barbara Ehrenreich
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The author of the critically acclaimed Blood Rites examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations, reflecting the human nature as social beings and involving ecstatic revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks worship of Dionysus to the more recent carnivalization of sports. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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NotCool
Mehso-so

Mmm. I enjoyed some of the history, but any time she wrote about things I had first hand experience of, mostly when she wrote about American culture, I felt like everything she said was a reach. Which makes me mistrust everything else.

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sophierayton
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Panpan

For such a fun looking book, I found this kind of boring.

Mindyrecycles I think after Nickel and Dimed, she forgot how to write. Bait and Switch was a terrible snooze. 5y
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LadyElaine
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Could use a bit of collective joy today. Just started this one on audio as I get through my daily chores.

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JacquelynLovesYou
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I love this cover. I'm very interested in the human capacity for joy and our ways of bringing it about and expressing it. Also, in community. So this book is right up my alley.

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