Mini: Death by Dancing: The mass hysteria known as dance mania
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English - January 09, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Health & Fitness Mental Health psychology mental health therapy pop culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We explore the history of various episodes of dance mania, along with characteristic behaviors and possible causes of the bizarre hysteria.
References
About the Tarantella [Video file]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://houstonpbs.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/3459b331-c720-41c9-afe4-00e6d6a5034c/about-the-tarantella/
Bartholomew, R. E. (2001). Little green men, meowing nuns and head-hunting panics: a
study of mass psychogenic illness and social delusion. Jefferson: McFarland & Company.
Calabrese, A. (2015, October 26). The tarantual-possesed women who could only be cured by dance. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-tarantula-possessed-women-who-could-only-be-cured-by-dance
Tarantella: listen to the dance of the spider's bite [Blog post]. (2014, November 4). Retrieved from http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/04/tarantella-listen-to-the-dance-of-the-spiders-bite/
Waller, J. (2009). A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania. The Lancet, 373, 624-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60386-X
Waller, J. (2018, July 5). Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourg
We explore the history of various episodes of dance mania, along with characteristic behaviors and possible causes of the bizarre hysteria.
References
About the Tarantella [Video file]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://houstonpbs.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/3459b331-c720-41c9-afe4-00e6d6a5034c/about-the-tarantella/
Bartholomew, R. E. (2001). Little green men, meowing nuns and head-hunting panics: a
study of mass psychogenic illness and social delusion. Jefferson: McFarland & Company.
Calabrese, A. (2015, October 26). The tarantual-possesed women who could only be cured by dance. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-tarantula-possessed-women-who-could-only-be-cured-by-dance
Tarantella: listen to the dance of the spider’s bite [Blog post]. (2014, November 4). Retrieved from http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/04/tarantella-listen-to-the-dance-of-the-spiders-bite/
Waller, J. (2009). A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania. The Lancet, 373, 624-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60386-X
Waller, J. (2018, July 5). Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourg