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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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Dance Crazes have always been a part of social dancing, sometimes gliding into tradition and sometimes fading into oblivion.This book addresses and even describes most all known ones. ... Read more

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Chapters: Y.m.c.a., the Loco-Motion, Hokey Cokey, Twist and Shout, Lambada, Saturday Night, Para Para, Chicken Dance, the Smurfs, Conga Line, Latin Boogaloo, Time Warp, Batusi, Madison, Hey! Baby, Cha Cha Slide, Chicken Reel, Black Bottom, the Frug, Carioca, Hully Gully, the Stroll, the Mule, Mashed Potato, Come on Do the Jerk, Shimmy, Turkey Trot, the Watusi, Algorithm March, Suzie Q, Electric Slide, the Running Man, Ballin' the Jack, Bunny Hop, the Freddie, Monkey, the Nutbush, Walkin' the Dog, Pony, Bossa Nova, Bump, Hitch Hike, Cabbage Patch Dance, Macarena. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 198. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Y.M.C.A." is a 1978 song by the Village People which became a hit in January 1979. The song reached #2 on the U.S. charts in early 1979 and reached No.1 in the UK around the same time, becoming the group's biggest hit ever. Taken at face value, its lyrics extol the virtues of the Young Men's Christian Association. In the gay culture from which the group sprang, the song was implicitly understood as celebrating the YMCA's reputation as a popular cruising and hookup spot, particularly for the younger gay men to whom it was addressed. However, Victor Willis, Village People lead singer and writer of the lyrics, insists that he did not write YMCA as a gay anthem (Willis is straight). Rather, Willis said he wrote the song as a reflection of young urban black youth fun at the YMCA such as basketball and swimming, etc. That said, Willis has often acknowledged his fondness for double entendre. Willis also revealed that he wrote the song in Vancouver, British Columbia. The song continues to remain popular and is played at many sporting events in the USA. It is frequently played during breaks in the action at sporting events with crowds using the dance as an oppor...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=469133 ... Read more

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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 American Decades: Primary Sources, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 760 words.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.American Decades Primary Sources provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues. Entries representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author and further resources. American Decades Primary Sources includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports. Included to provide unique perspectives and a wealth of understanding are first hand accounts that include oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoonsand recipes. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on October 1, 2008. The length of the article is 2112 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Myths and Truths from exercise physiology: what fitness fads do you believe?(HOGZILLA or HOGWASH?)(Clinical report)
Author: H. Scott Kieffer
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 79Issue: 8Page: 23(3)

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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. ... Read more

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Excellent book. I bought it for a class that I was taking and it was verry interesting.I recommned this book to everyone thats is in the advertising business ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! FadGadget is the stage name of Francis John (Frank)Tovey (8 September 1956 - 3 April 2002), aninfluential British avant-garde electronic musicianand vocalist. He was an exponent of both New Waveand early Industrial music. As Fad Gadget, his musicwas characterized by a distinctive use ofsynthesizers in conjunction with sounds of foundobjects, including drills and electric razors. Hisbleak, sarcastic, and darkly humorous lyrics, oftenlayered in meaning and discussing subjects such asmachinery, building construction, human sexuality,and physical violence, were sung in a droningmonotone voice. ... Read more

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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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