{"product_id":"dance-floor-democracy-9780822357421","title":"Dance Floor Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDance Floor Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is a model for what we might call embodied social and cultural history: works that takes the body (including that of the researcher herself) as a site of knowledge. … \u003ci\u003eDance Floor Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e reveals scholarly practice as its own kind of dancing.” -- Gayle Wald * Journal of Popular Music Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“With its beautiful and clear writing style, this book would be of interest to an audience of general readers, as well as to specialists in dance and jazz. Tucker’s research methodology in this book is applicable to a wide range of interdisciplinary fields, including jazz studies, American studies, African American studies, ethnomusicology, and anthropology.” -- Yoko Suzuki * Women and Music *\u003cbr\u003e“More than just a straightforward history of the Canteen, Tucker’s smart and sophisticated analysis utilizes this unique wartime institution to understand the variety of ways in which WWII is remembered and memorialized in the present day. … \u003ci\u003eDance Floor Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e makes for a thoughtful, eye-opening account of the complexities of the World War II generation, especially given Tucker’s masterful skills as an oral historian.” -- Elizabeth R. Escobedo * Western Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Tucker contributes here not only to the fields of history, jazz, and American studies but also to the burgeoning field of critical dance studies. Reckoning with dance, in Tucker’s work, is a way to think differently about politics.\"  -- Danielle Goldman * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDance Floor Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable and exceptionally well-researched revisionist history of the Hollywood Canteen, critiquing not only the dominant paradigm of a friendly, democratic site, but also giving voice to the ‘others’ whose stories have been eclipsed by the feel-good memory of whom we wish we had been.\" -- Rebecca A. Bryant * Ethnomusicology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        vii   Prologue. Dance Floor Democracy?        xiii   Introduction. Writing on a Crowded Dance Floor        1   Part I. On Location: Situating the Hollywood Canteen (and Swing Culture as National Memory) in Wartime Los Angeles          1. Wrestling Hollywood to the Map        25   2. Cruising the Cahuenga Pass(t)        51   3. Operating from the Curbstone        76   Part II. Patriotic Jitterbugs: Tracing the Footsteps of the Soldier-Hostess Dyad          4. Dyad Democracy        107   5. Injured Parties        146   6. Torquing Back        179   Part III. Women in Uniforms, Men in Aprons: Dancing outside the Soldier-Hostess Dyad          7. The Dyad from Without        199   8. The View from the Mezzanine        212   9. Men Serving Men        226   Part IV. Swing Between the Nation and the State          10. (Un)American Patrol: Following the State on the Dance Floor of the Nation        243   11. The Making(s) of National Memory: Hollywood Canteen (the Movie)        281   Notes        321   Bibliography        351   Index        365","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406083236183,"sku":"9780822357421","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822357421.jpg?v=1730494467","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dance-floor-democracy-9780822357421","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}