'You cannot shake that shimmie here': Producing mobility on the dance floor

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-77

  Cresswell, Tim ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; CULTURAL HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MOBILITY; MORALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 30944445196     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1474474006eu350oa     Document Type: Review

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75. Ibid., p. 86.
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79. Ibid.
80. Richardson, History of English ballroom dancing, pp. 37-38.
81. Quoted in ibid., p. 38.
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