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Barbara O'Connor, The Irish Dancing: Cultural Politics and Identities, 1900–2000 , Cork: Cork University Press, 2013, 192 pp., €39.00. ISBN: 9781782050414.

Barbara O'Connor, The Irish Dancing: Cultural Politics and Identities, 1900–2000 , Cork: Cork... BOOK REVIEWS utopian vision of the revived rural dance, which Eliot previously critiqued in a review of Sharp's book The Dance (1924). Round and round the fire Leaping through the flames, or joined in circles, Rustically solemn or in rustic laughter Lifting heavy feet in clumsy shoes [. . . . . . ] She argues that this is far from dance as restorative of community; rather it is a nightmarish depiction of dead revellers with many antecedents of literary `Demonic Dances' going back to Euripides' The Bacchae. The images point to the way the release of kinaesthetic expression in dance can also allow the disturbing and unnatural underbelly of society to show through. Eliot was writing just as the interwar period moved into the Second World War. Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination contextualises the depiction of dance in images and writing within deep concerns about society and modernity largely engendered by experience of the Great War, making this an important text for understanding the modernism of the interwar years. Zimring's scholarship is admirable. Where the book is sometimes frustrating is in the way the dances themselves often disappear from view, hidden by the other minds through http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dance Research Edinburgh University Press

Barbara O'Connor, The Irish Dancing: Cultural Politics and Identities, 1900–2000 , Cork: Cork University Press, 2013, 192 pp., €39.00. ISBN: 9781782050414.

Dance Research , Volume 33 (1): 76 – May 1, 2015

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
© 2015 Society for Dance Research
Subject
Book Reviews; Media Studies
ISSN
0264-2875
eISSN
1750-0095
DOI
10.3366/drs.2015.0127
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BOOK REVIEWS utopian vision of the revived rural dance, which Eliot previously critiqued in a review of Sharp's book The Dance (1924). Round and round the fire Leaping through the flames, or joined in circles, Rustically solemn or in rustic laughter Lifting heavy feet in clumsy shoes [. . . . . . ] She argues that this is far from dance as restorative of community; rather it is a nightmarish depiction of dead revellers with many antecedents of literary `Demonic Dances' going back to Euripides' The Bacchae. The images point to the way the release of kinaesthetic expression in dance can also allow the disturbing and unnatural underbelly of society to show through. Eliot was writing just as the interwar period moved into the Second World War. Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination contextualises the depiction of dance in images and writing within deep concerns about society and modernity largely engendered by experience of the Great War, making this an important text for understanding the modernism of the interwar years. Zimring's scholarship is admirable. Where the book is sometimes frustrating is in the way the dances themselves often disappear from view, hidden by the other minds through

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Dance ResearchEdinburgh University Press

Published: May 1, 2015

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