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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628397 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrator: Pam Ward
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Release date: January 1, 2006
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
From bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks. Though suppressed by elites who fear the undermining of social hierarchies, outbreaks of group revelry still persist, Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent “carnivalization” of sports. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets shows that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and thereby envision a peaceable future.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628397 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrator: Pam Ward
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Release date: January 1, 2006
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
From bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks. Though suppressed by elites who fear the undermining of social hierarchies, outbreaks of group revelry still persist, Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent “carnivalization” of sports. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets shows that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and thereby envision a peaceable future.