Dance floor democracy : the social geography of memory at the Hollywood Canteen / Sherrie Tucker.

• Prologue: dance floor democracy? -- Introduction: writing on a crowded dance floor -- On location: situating the Hollywood Canteen (and swing culture as national memory) in wartime Los Angeles -- Wrestling Hollywood to the map -- Cruising the Cahuenga Pass(t) -- Operating from the curbstone -- Patriotic jitterbugs: tracing the footsteps of the soldier-hostess dyad -- Dyad democracy -- Injured parties -- Torquing back -- Women in uniforms, men in aprons: dancing outside the soldier-hostess dyad -- The dyad from without -- The view from the mezzanine -- Men serving men -- Swing between the nation and the state -- (Un)American patrol: following the state on the dance floor of the nation -- The making(s) of national memory: Hollywood Canteen (the movie).

Ämnesord

Andra världskriget 1939-1945  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Dans  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Minnet  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Social aspects -- United States. (LCSH)

Memory  -- Social aspects -- United States. (LCSH)

Dance  -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  -- Kalifornien -- Los Angeles (sao)

Los Angeles (Calif.)  -- Social conditions -- 20th century. (LCSH)

1939-1945  (sao)

Institutionsnamn

Hollywood Canteen.

Klassifikation

D744.7.U6 (LCC)

940.531 (DDC)

K.54 (kssb/8 (machine generated))