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Book/Printed Material From the ball-room to hell

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Title

  • From the ball-room to hell

Summary

  • This antidance treatise, written by an ex-dancing master, is devoted to condemning the waltz. Some of the chapter titles include "From the Ball-Room to the Grave," "Abandoned Women the Best Dancers," and "The Approval of Society is no Proof Against the Degradation."

Names

  • Faulkner, Thomas A.

Created / Published

  • Chicago, The Henry Publishing Co. [c1892]

Headings

  • -  Dance--Religious aspects
  • -  Antidance Literature

Medium

  • vi, 7-72 p. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1741 .F24

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05028761

Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Faulkner, Thomas A. From the Ball-Room to Hell. [Chicago, The Henry Publishing Co, 1892] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/05028761/.

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Faulkner, T. A. (1892) From the Ball-Room to Hell. [Chicago, The Henry Publishing Co] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05028761/.

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Faulkner, Thomas A. From the Ball-Room to Hell. [Chicago, The Henry Publishing Co, 1892] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05028761/>.