Worlds of Social Dancing

Klaus Nathaus is Professor of History at the University of OsloJames Nott is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of St Andrews

• Introduction Dance floor encounters and the global rise of couple dancing: an introduction to the worlds of social dancing – Klaus Nathaus and James Nott1 Tango dancing in Buenos Aires: women, style and intimacy (1920–1940) – Cecilia Tossounian2 Building ‘Dreamland’: dancers, musicians, and the transformation of social dancing into mass culture in the USA, c. 1900–1941 – Klaus Nathaus3 ‘We do not want “fairies” in the ballroom’: working-class men, dancing and the renegotiation of masculinity in interwar Britain – James Nott4 Similar steps, different venues: the making of segregated dancing worlds in South Africa, 1910–1939 – Alida Maria Green5 ‘European dances’ in colonial Kikuyuland: modernities, ethnicity, and politics, 1926–1947 – Cécile Feza Bushidi6 Domesticating the social dance: the case of New Zealand between the two World Wars – John Griffiths7 Demarcating status: tango music and dance in Japan, 1913–1940 – Yuiko Asaba8 The rise of Chinese taxi-dancers: glamorous careers, romantic fantasies, and sexual dreams on the dance floors of Shanghai, 1919–1937 – Andrew David Field9 Dancing through dictatorship: everyday practices and affective experiences of social dancing in Fascist Italy – Kate Ferris10 Co-ordinating for love: establishing conventions of romantic couple dancing in interwar Germany – Klaus Nathaus11 Between control, education, and free communication: socialdancing in the USSR from the 1920s to the early 1960s – Igor Narskiy