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Article: Popular culture and modernity: dancing in New Zealand society 1920-1945.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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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 range of new products, changing social attitudes, fashions and methods of travel can all be seen as contributing to a sense of "being modern" after 1918. In the context of New Zealand the issue of ...