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Cover for Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History by Christopher J. Smith (University of Illinois Press, 2019), which features an illustration of actress and American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist Josephine Baker performing in famous “banana skirt.”
Michael J. Kramer
Title: History Professor Reviews New Books About American Culture
Date: May 04, 2021
Summary: Michael Kramer’s review essay examines two recent books — Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History and Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music.
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Historian Michael J. Kramer published a review essay, “Beyond Culture As Compensatory Politics: Vernacular Dance and Popular Music As Intellectual History,” in the Society for US Intellectual History Book Review
