Dance floor democracy : the social geography of memory at the Hollywood Canteen /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tucker, Sherrie, 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Hollywood Canteen. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States. Memory > Social aspects > United States. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century. Dance > Social aspects > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: dance floor democracy?
Introduction: writing on a crowded dance floor
On location: situating the Hollywood Canteen (and swing culture as national memory) in wartime Los Angeles
Wrestling Hollywood to the map
Cruising the Cahuenga Pass(t)
Operating from the curbstone
Patriotic jitterbugs: tracing the footsteps of the soldier-hostess dyad
Dyad democracy
Injured parties
Torquing back
Women in uniforms, men in aprons: dancing outside the soldier-hostess dyad
The dyad from without
The view from the mezzanine
Men serving men
Swing between the nation and the state
(Un)American patrol: following the state on the dance floor of the nation
The making(s) of national memory: Hollywood Canteen (the movie).