[Adta] re: book recommendation

[Michelle Adams]

Thanks for the book recommendation, Heidi. I recently heard an 
interview with Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book ("Dancing in the 
Streets") on NPR and in addition to wondering if you two were related, 
I was curious about her book. I am especially curious about her 
background, because one caller questioned her about Gabrielle Roth's "5 
Rhythms" and the author was totally unfamiliar with it. This surprised 
me, because "5 Rhythms" has been around for several years now and is 
very much "ecstatic group celebration." I wanted to call in to the show 
myself to inquire about her awareness of Dance/Movement Therapy. It 
would be great if she were indeed familiar with it and even better, of 
course, if it is included in her book. If anyone reads this book, 
please share a review (or overview) with the list serve.

Thanks,
Michelle Adams, MA, DTR, RYT
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:09:38 -0500
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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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