Dancing in the Streets, Barbara Ehrenreich
Dancing in the Streets, Barbara Ehrenreich
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Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006


Synopsis

Bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich presents a fascinating exploration of one of humanitys oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.

About Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the 2002 New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She has written nearly twenty books, and has been a columnist for Time magazine and the New York Times. She has contributed to The Progressive, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, and salon.com.


Reviews

Es el primer ensayo que leo así que no tengo mucho conocimiento pero debo decir que me gustó mucho pues nos guía a través de los principios de nuestra historia, pasando por la época de Jesús, Dionisio, la revolución industrial, el nacimiento del carnaval, la época del rock y de los hippies, terminad......more

Goodreads review by Richard

I was intrigued when our book group selected Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich. It’s a history of collective joy and ecstatic ritual — stuff that’s pretty rare in the land of the glowing screen people. Studying humankind’s long transition from wild and free to robo-consumers, it’s easy to......more

Goodreads review by Greg

Emma Goldman - "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution" Have we done ourselves the great diservice. Too disembodied from our minds and hearts to feel that human connection. Distancing ourselves from the grosser and sensual pleasures of collective enjoyment, we live luxirous priv......more