Summary
Dance Culture: Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the dancefloor with the music writer, Emma Warren, whose latest research combines social history and memoir to answer the question 'why do we dance together?' Also, Melin Levent Yuna, a sociologist and anthropologist at Acibaden University, explains why Istanbul has become the Tango capital of the world, after Buenos Aires, in spite of its conservative government.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:48.6 | Hello if I were looking for a question that made me |
| 0:52.1 | positively quail I find it difficult to trump the |
| 0:55.6 | one that prefaces a new book entitled A Journey Through the Dance Floor. |
| 1:01.4 | What does dancing tell us about ourselves individually and |
| 1:05.7 | collectively writes the author adding for good measure and what can dancing do for |
| 1:10.5 | us? Well I've talked before on this program about my commonplace |
| 1:14.5 | dance in history. My lack of a bronze medal and all the teenagers around me |
| 1:18.8 | were sporting silver achievements, the evening when I was escorted from the |
| 1:22.4 | dance floor at the tower ballroom New Brighton |
| 1:24.5 | because one of the bounces mistook my energetic Fox dot for a banned Jitterbug. The day when I was reprimanded at the Brownmore Youth Club for rigging the Paul Jones |
| 1:34.4 | so that I ended up opposite the lovely Pam Wilson. |
| 1:37.2 | But the idea that my lumpy dancing might reveal something critical about my personality about me was well enough |
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