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Dance of the Sleepwalkers: The Dance Marathon Fad
By Frank M. Calabria
232 pages
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- Bowling Green State University Popular Press
- Place of publication:
- Bowling Green, OH
- Publication year:
- 1993
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Synopsis
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.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Dance of the Sleepwalkers *
- Dance of the Sleepwalkers - The Dance Marathon Fad *
- Acknowledgments *
- Contents *
- Introduction 1
- Part I - From Fad to Show Business *
- Chapter One - The Fad 5
- Chapter Two - The Dance Marathons 10
- Chapter Three - The Walkathons 17
- Part II - How Long Can They Last? *
- Chapter Four - Poor Man's Night Club 54
- Chapter Five - What's Your Story? 65
- Chapter Six - Natural Heat, "Working Heat" 76
- Part III - The Palace of Wasted Footsteps *
- Chapter Seven - Dance of the Godfathers 122
- Chapter Eight - The Glory Walk 130
- Dance of the Sleepwalkers *
- Dance of the Sleepwalkers - The Dance Marathon Fad *
- Acknowledgments *
- Contents *
- Introduction 1
- Part I - From Fad to Show Business *
- Chapter One - The Fad 5
- Chapter Two - The Dance Marathons 10
- Chapter Three - The Walkathons 17
- Part II - How Long Can They Last? *
- Chapter Four - Poor Man's Night Club 54
- Chapter Five - What's Your Story? 65
- Chapter Six - Natural Heat, "Working Heat" 76
- Part III - The Palace of Wasted Footsteps *
- Chapter Seven - Dance of the Godfathers 122
- Chapter Eight - The Glory Walk 130
- Chapter Nine - Danse Macabre 139
- Part IV - The Innocent Jail *
- Chapter Ten - Dance of the Automatons 147
- Chapter Eleven - The Dance of Death 153
- Part V - Dance of the Daemons *
- Chapter Twelve - The Manic Twenties 159
- Chapter 13 - The Depressive Thirties 173
- Part VI - The Dance Marathon Craze *
- Chapter Fourteen - The Great American Sham 190
- Chapter Fifteen - Dance Endurance Contest 198
- Notes 203
- Works Cited 206
- Index 213