Dance and Authoritarianism Animal Science & Zoology stunningly plotted' JAMES ELLROY

stunningly plotted' JAMES ELLROY

'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' London Review of Books

not a treatise

I highly recommend Katsenelson's book

Dance and Authoritarianism Animal Science & Zoology stunningly plotted' JAMES ELLROYEveryone who watched the opening ceremony of Beijings 2008 Summer Olympics can understand the power of dance and mass movement in the service of politics. Public performance and festival at such scale are familiar to us in Nazi Germany, the former Soviet Union, and contemporary North Korea, but this new book addresses lesser known examplesin Spain, the Dominican Republic, Iran, Croatia, and Uzbekistanand explores the various political regimes that