Popular culture and modernity: dancing in New Zealand society 1920-1945.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Griffiths, John | Copyright information 
 
  What are we here for anyway? To be a slave to pleasure? No, we are 
  here to build character and citizenship. 
  Letter signed "Eyewitness" in The New Zealand Listener 'Acts of 
  Dancing', 29 December 1944.

In recent years the issue of modernity and its appearance in the twentieth century has captivated the interest of historians. (1) Indeed, the topic has been approached from a number of directions. Arriving shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, a ran...

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