Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance by Borgerson, Janet
Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance by Borgerson, Janet

Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance

When Americans mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, polkaed in the pavilion, and tangoed...
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Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance by Borgerson, Janet

Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance

$105.55
Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance by Borgerson, Janet

Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance

$105.55
Author: Janet Borgerson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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When Americans mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, polkaed in the pavilion, and tangoed at the club; with glorious, full-color record cover art.

In midcentury America, eager dancers mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, Watusied at the nightclub, and polkaed in the pavilion, instructed (and inspired) by dance records. Glorious, full-color record covers encouraged them: Let's Cha Cha Cha, Dance and Stay Young, Dancing in the Street!, Limbo Party, High Society Twist. In Designed for Dancing, vinyl record aficionados and collectors Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder examine dance records of the 1950s and 1960s as expressions of midcentury culture, identity, fantasy, and desire.

Borgerson and Schroeder begin with the record covers--memorable and striking, but largely designed and created by now-forgotten photographers, scenographers, and illustrators--which were central to the way records were conceived, produced, and promoted. Dancing allowed people to sample aspirational lifestyles, whether at the Plaza or in a smoky Parisian café, and to affirm ancestral identities with Irish, Polish, or Greek folk dancing. Dance records featuring ethnic music of variable authenticity and appropriateness invited consumers to dance in the footsteps of the Other with "hot" Latin music, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and Hawaiian hulas. Bought at a local supermarket, department store, or record shop, and listened to in the privacy of home, midcentury dance records offered instruction in how to dance, how to dress, how to date, and how to discover cool new music--lessons for harmonizing with the rest of postwar America.

Author: Janet Borgerson, Jonathan Schroeder
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/19/2021
Pages: 552
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.80lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780262044332


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2021 pg. 1

About the Author
Janet Borgerson is Wicklander Fellow at DePaul University. Jonathan Schroeder is William A. Kern Professor in the School of Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology. They are the authors of Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America (MIT Press), named a best book of 2017 by the Financial Times and a best music book of 2017 by Vinyl Factory.
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