Cancan!

by David Price

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Cancan! is a comprehensive history of this dance in its social context. The author examines political changes and their effects on the evolution of the dance, the sexual morality of the times, prostitution, the growing emancipation of women toward the end of the nineteenth century, changes in women's fashions, and development in the arts. Illustrated.
  • ISBN10 0956671101
  • ISBN13 9780956671103
  • Publish Date 8 October 2010 (first published 1 August 1998)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Cancan Publishing
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 246
  • Language English