{"product_id":"dancing-in-the-streets-a-history-of-collective-joy-9780805057249","title":"Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eBlood Rites\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEhrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and savage, Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a danced religion. Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent carnivalization of sports. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginal, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, \u003ci\u003eDancing in the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.--Terry Eagleton, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-97989\"\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Holt McDougal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805057249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805057242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS054000\"\u003eSocial History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS037000\"\u003eWorld | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlood Rites\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, she has also been a columnist at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She is the winner of the \u003ci\u003eL.A. Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Current Interest and ALA Notable Books for Nonfiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEhrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism. She lives and works in Florida.","brand":"Holt McDougal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697990177005,"sku":"9780805057249","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_c3611c7f-393d-4e96-946a-1f059c635326.jpg?v=1649892725","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/dancing-in-the-streets-a-history-of-collective-joy-9780805057249","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}