{"product_id":"dancing-in-the-streets-a-history-of-collective-joy","title":"Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780805057232\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMetropolitan Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFrom the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian, a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy\u003cbr\u003eIn the acclaimed \"Blood Rites,\" Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.\u003cbr\u003eEhrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and \"savage,\" Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a \"danced religion.\" Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent \"carnivalization\" of sports. \u003cbr\u003eOriginal, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, \"Dancing in the Streets\" concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy | Barbara Ehrenreich | Hardcover | 9780805057232 | Used: Very Good | History 1736885 (temp: 17)","offer_id":48168515338392,"sku":"1736885","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81ViQFImFnL.jpg?v=1771970254","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dancing-in-the-streets-a-history-of-collective-joy","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}