Posted on 27/01/07
We're all dancing fools
Dancing in the Streets:A History of Collective JoyBy Barbara EhrenreichMetropolitan Books,320 pages, $32The annual New Year's celebration in Times Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, stick figures in paleolithic cave art, the corroboree rite of western Australians that so puzzled (and revolted) Charles Darwin, the bibulous cult of Dionysus, the community suppers of primitive Christianity, the bloodiest excesses of the French Revolution -- what could these disparate phenomena possibly have in common? The answer, according to Barbara Ehrenreich, is dancing.
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