@article{335087,
      recid = {335087},
      author = {Ehrenreich, Barbara. and Ward, Pam.},
      title = {Dancing in the streets [a history of collective joy] /  [sound recording] :},
      publisher = {Blackstone Audiobooks,},
      address = {Ashland, Or. :},
      pages = {8 sound discs (ca. 9 hrs., 30 min.) :},
      year = {2007},
      note = {Subtitle from container.},
      abstract = {Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse  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. She uncovers the origins of communal celebration  in human biology and culture. Although 16th-century  Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage,"  Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West,  from the ancient Greeks to medieval Christianity.  Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the  streets, 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 uprisings and  revolutions from France to 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.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/335087},
}