History is made at night
The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters
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16th century
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Noise at Night - 1595
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An early regulation against noisy parties ('revyling') was included as Rule 30 in London's The Lawes of the Market in 1595. Seem...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The State and Clothes: from the Statues of Apparel to the Burqa Ban
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The day before the national celebration of the storming of the Bastille in pursuit of liberty, the French government today passed a law bann...
Monday, April 26, 2010
Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance: Shakespeare on raving
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The search for the linguistic origins of 'rave' and 'raver' continues. Jon, who does the interesting Alsatia history site ,...
Friday, January 02, 2009
Banning Christmas
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Still a few days to go of the Twelve Days of Christmas festivities. In the 16th century though, protestant churches in Scotland sometimes tr...
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Zarabanda
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‘Some claim this dance received its name from a devil in woman's shape who appeared in Seville in the twelfth century, and who labeled i...
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