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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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May Christians dance? By Jas. H. Brookes.

Brookes, James H. 1830-1897. (James Hall),

CREATED/PUBLISHED
St. Louis, J. W. McIntyre, 1869.

SUMMARY
This is a typical example of the antidance literature that was published during the nineteenth century. Although Brookes provides a weak defense of dancing, his final conclusion is that the large assemblies, indelicate dressing, "unwarrantable freedom of intercourse between the sexes," as well as uncontrolled excitement, leads to a thorough worldliness and, ultimately, to the forgetfulness of God. The manual was reissued in the 1890s under the title The modern dance.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Religious aspects.
Antidance Literature.

MEDIUM
143 p. 16 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1741 .B8

DIGITAL ID
musdi 028 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.028

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