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Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s
Thesis (PhD (History))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/94497 Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s Harris, Karen Leigh alida.green@up.ac.za Green, Alida Maria UCTD Social dance Johannesburg Segregation and apartheid White and black middle-class Inter-group relations Dance fashion Ballroom dancing Music bands Thesis (PhD (History))--University of Pretoria, 2024. This doctoral study uses social dance as a lens to reflect on race relations and class divisions in the greater Johannesburg region. It offers a new perspective by exploring why and how communities chose and recreated popular social dances from the global West to suit their restrictive local social circumstances. It explores a critical half century in the South African past, 1920s to 1950s, a time when segregation predominated, and apartheid was pending which influenced every aspect of life. By 1928 Johannesburg was the major city in South Africa and on its periphery, it had three of South Africa’s largest townships allocated for people designated as black. It also had an expanding entertainment hub including palais de danse, dance halls and a number of teachers who taught the latest dance trends from abroad. This study explores how imported social dances were integrated into the new culture of white and black middle-class elite. Using alternate and underexplored sources this research reflects on why members across the spectrum of South African society could and wanted to dance and how they recreated their dancing world to be sustainable in their restrained and restricted environment. Historical and Heritage Studies PhD (History) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities 2024-02-12T13:15:29Z 2024-02-12T13:15:29Z 2024-05 2024 Thesis * A2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94497 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.25205738 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Social dance Johannesburg Segregation and apartheid White and black middle-class Inter-group relations Dance fashion Ballroom dancing Music bands Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s |
| title | Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s |
| title_full | Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s |
| title_fullStr | Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s |
| title_short | Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s |
| title_sort | dancing the night away a history of johannesburg s social dancing worlds 1920s to 1950s |
| topic | UCTD Social dance Johannesburg Segregation and apartheid White and black middle-class Inter-group relations Dance fashion Ballroom dancing Music bands |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94497 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.25205738 |