[Adta] book recommendation

[Heidi ehrenreich]

I saw a review of this book in the Boston Globe and thought others 
would be interested in it. Here is a short excerpt from the review.
DANCING IN THE STREETS
A History of Collective Joy.
By Barbara Ehrenreich.
320 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $26.
Barbara Ehrenreich wants to affirm the value of ecstatic group 
celebration. She aligns it with the old precolonial, precapitalist, 
pre-Christian religions, and with Carnival. The dancing meant by her 
title has ancient roots; it precedes streets. It also goes beyond them 
in the modern stadium, where sports and music, watching and performing, 
all merge. The kind of celebration Ehrenreich celebrates is communal 
though ungoverned, and anti-hierarchical though ancient. In the god 
Dionysus she sees a liberating force needed but resisted by modern 
Western society
Heidi Ehrenreich
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