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Dancathons
There's something mesmerizing and addictive about watching people on the fringe of existence, people pushed to the edge, people in dire straits or even close.In the 1920s and especially during the Great Depresssion of the 1930s, dance marathon fads played on this morbid fascination we have for people with hard-luck stories, people down on the luck, people at the end of their rope.

With uncommon depth and insight, Frank M. Calabria analyzes audience responses to these weird spectacles, the painful agony of the competition, and the abusive treatment by walkathon show organizers and their emcees.This 1993 book also includes a wonderful collection of period photographs.As a former psychology professor, Calabria is qualified to present what is surely a unique analysis of the increasingly tortured conditions of contestants' emotion state as a dance marathon progressed.

Reading Calabria's book, I suffered from an interesting paradox:throughout the descriptions of sleep-deprived, hypnotic exhaustion endured by the wretched "dancers,"I found myself alert and eagerly turning to the next page. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1100 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On fads and fundamentals: jazz dance teachers share their perspectives.(TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION)
Author: Lynn Voedisch
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 80Issue: 1Page: 198(4)

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 4091 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Medicine ball for all: a novel program that enhances physical fitness in school-age youths; More than a retro fad, medicine ball training can improve fitness.
Author: Avery Faigenbaum
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 77Issue: 7Page: 25(7)

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Expanded and updated from the successful first edition, Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture, Second Edition looks at marketing strategies, sex and advertising, consumer culture, political advertising, and communication theory and process to give an accessible overview of advertising in America. New material includes classified advertising, advertising agencies in the recent economy, postmodern perspectives on advertising, new consumer cultures, metaphor and metonymy, product placement, and the 2002 California campaign for governor. A new chapter raises questions about prescription drug advertising and advertising to children. Visit our website for sample chapters! ... Read more