A Social And Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960
by
James Nott
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
From the mid-1920s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain - a place rivalled only by the cinema and eventually to eclipse even that institution in popularity. Going to the Palais examines the history of this vital social and...