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Dancing in the Streets

A History of Collective Joy

by Barbara Ehrenreich

2006 320 pages eng ★ 4.7 (3 ratings)

"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 bio…

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