Name: Dancing in the Streets
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Barbara Ehrenreich

A fascinating account of the human desire for collective joy.

A History of Collective Joy

Dancing in the Streets

The author of the critically acclaimed Blood Rites examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations, reflecting the human nature as social beings, involving ecstatic revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the more recent “carnivalization” of sports. 60,000 first printing.

Dancing in the Streets A History of Collective Joy

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