Dancing In The Streets

Resumen del libro

In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and 'savage', Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greek's worship of Dionysus to the medieval practices of Christianity as a 'danced religion'.

Exhilarating in its scholarly range, humane, witty and impassioned, Dancing in the Streets will generate debate and soul-searching.

Biografía del autor

Ensayista y activista social estadounidense. Desde 1991 hasta 1997 ha sido columnista habitual en la revista Time y ha escrito para publicaciones como The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Z Magazine. Desde agosto de 2005 escribe para el periódico The Progressive.