Dancing Black, Dancing White
Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 June 2023
- ISBN 9780197536254
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 156x235x18 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 23 b&w halftones 474
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Short description:
Dancing Black, Dancing White offers a new look at a popular phenomenon of the 1950s and 1960s---the televised teen dance program. Through a social and cultural history lens, the book uses these shows to explore rock and roll and how it affected both white and Black teenagers. The crux of the book is twofold: to explore how social and popular dance styles were created and disseminated within the new technology of television and to investigate how the shows both reflected and re-affirmed the racial politics and attitudes of the time.
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Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s offers a new look at the highly popular phenomenon of the televised teen dance program. These teen shows were incubators of new styles of social and popular dance and both reflected and shaped pressing social issues of the day. Often referred to as "dance parties," the televised teen dance shows helped cultivate a nascent youth culture in the post-World War II era. The youth culture depicted on the shows, however, was primarily white. Black teenagers certainly had a youth culture of their own, but the injustice was glaring: Black culture was not always in evident display on the airwaves, as television, like the nation at large, was deeply segregated and appealed to a primarily white, homogenous audience. The crux of the book, then, is twofold: to explore how social and popular dance styles were created and disseminated within the new technology of television and to investigate how the shows both reflected and re-affirmed the racial politics and attitudes of the time.
The 1950s was a watershed decade for American culture and dance. The era witnessed the ascendancy of rock and roll music and recorded sound, the rise of the teenager as a marketing demographic, the beginnings of television, and a new phase of the country's struggle with race. The story of televised teen dance told here is about Black and white teenagers wanting to dance to rock 'n' roll music despite the barriers placed on their ability to do so. It is also a story that fuses issues of race, morality, and sexuality. Dancing Black, Dancing White weaves together these elements to tell two stories: that of the different experiences of Black and white adolescents and their desires to have a space of their own where they could be seen, heard, appreciated, and understood.
Malnig's work traces and digs into how polyvalent local, vernacular styles become commodified, national, popular styles.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
1. Rock and Roll Dance and the TV Experiment
2. Transgressing Boundaries: Restraint and Rebellion in the Teen Dance Shows
3. "'Movin' and Groovin'": Black Teen Dance Shows of the 1950s and Early 1960s
4. Rock and Roll Dances and the Africanist Aesthetic
5. Girl Power: Youth Culture and Female Fandom
6. Storming the Sixties: From Teen Dances to Shindig!
Epilogue: Soul Train
Notes
Index
