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Book/Printed Material There is no harm in dancing,

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Title

  • There is no harm in dancing,

Summary

  • The basic premise in this antidance treatise is typical of this genre of dance literature; namely, dance is bad for the health and is a waste of money. The author utilizes a novel approach and uses trees as metaphors to support his arguments. Some trees are "not comely to look upon, but the fruit very good." Other trees have dangerous fruit, and the author concludes that samples of the fruit found on the tree of dancing include "pride, lasciviousness, lying, drunkenness, embezzlement, fornication, cruelty, idolatry, prostitution, abortion, and assassination." The manual was reissued in 1886 as The upas tree.

Names

  • Penn, W. E. (William Evander), 1832-1895

Created / Published

  • St. Louis, Mo., L. E. Kline, 1884.

Headings

  • -  Dance--Moral and ethical aspects
  • -  Antidance Literature

Notes

  • -  Published later under title: The upas tree ...

Medium

  • 58 p. 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1741 .P4

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca07006255

Online Format

  • image

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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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Chicago citation style:

Penn, W. E. There Is No Harm in Dancing. St. Louis, Mo., L. E. Kline, 1884. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca07006255/.

APA citation style:

Penn, W. E. (1884) There Is No Harm in Dancing. St. Louis, Mo., L. E. Kline. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca07006255/.

MLA citation style:

Penn, W. E. There Is No Harm in Dancing. St. Louis, Mo., L. E. Kline, 1884. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca07006255/>.