Podcast 10: Love at First Dance. A Brief History of Social Dancing

In this podcast, you can listen to Klaus Nathaus, Associate Professor at The Department of Archeology, History and Conservation, UiO talk about dancing as a way to start romantic relationships in the mid-20th century. 

sort-hvitt foto, dansende par, 1950-tallet

If you are born around 1980, chances are your grandparents fell in love on the dance floor. In the middle of the twentieth-century, dancing was a way to start romantic relationships between men and women. The podcast explains why. It tells the story of how dancing could acquire this meaning, and how it lost it again after the couples separated from the 1960s.

 
Publisert 3. des. 2019 11:52 - Sist endret 16. juni 2023 11:17
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