Dancing in borrowed shoes : a history of ballroom dancing in South Africa (1600s-1940s)

• Main Author: Green, Alida Maria
• Other Authors: Prof K L Harris
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Non-european ballroom dancing association; Inter-group relations; Sadta; Bantu men's social centre; Federation of dance sport south africa; Bmsc; Fedansa; Dance fashion; Leisure; Social clubs; Music bands; Governor-generals; Transvaal non-european ballroom dancing; Ballroom dancing; Dance; South africa dance teachers association; UCTD
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28872; Green, AM 2008, Dancing in borrowed shoes : a history of ballroom dancing in South Africa (1600s-1940s), MHCS dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28872 >; http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10202009-190259/

This study deals with the history of ballroom dancing in South Africa. While reference will be made to the founding of ballroom in the early eighteenth century in South Africa, the study will mainly focus on the period between 1920 and 1940 in the Johannesburg, Pretoria region. The study will determine how and why ballroom dancing came to South Africa from abroad; how South Africans borrowed from the international dancing world; what they copied, what ideas they followed, how they chose to dance ballroom and how this affected South African society at large. Copyright === Dissertation (MHCS)--University of Pretoria, 2009. === Historical and Heritage Studies === unrestricted