Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad (Popular Entertainment and Leisure)
Book Details
Author(s)
Frank M. Calabria
Publisher
Popular Press 1
ISBN / ASIN
0879725702
ISBN-13
9780879725709
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Sales Rank
#942,239
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Dance marathons were a phenomenally popular fad during the manic 1920s and depressive 1930s. What began as a craze soon developed into a money-making business which lasted 30 years. Some 20,000 contestants and show personnel participated in these events; audiences, the majority women, totalled in the millions. "A Poor Man's Nightclub," dance marathons were the dog-end of American show business, a bastard form of entertainment which borrowed from vaudeville, burlesque, night club acts and sports.
