Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA22086 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 3 May 2001 14:47:58 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745E48@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Dance craze Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 14:44:10 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
And there was me trying desperately to avoid mentioning 'Footloose'.... (coz
to do so would being an admittance of seeing it- of course, since it's
anti-religion I loved it!)
Vincent
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> From: Scott Chase
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2001 1:55 am
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Dance craze
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> >From: Douglas Brooker <dbrooker@clara.co.uk>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >Subject: Re: Dance craze
> >Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 19:36:10 +0100
> >
> >
> >
> >"Wade T.Smith" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Trupeljak Ozren -
> > >
> > > >Any ideas why would, and how, such a strange thing as "dance
> epidemcs"
> > > >appear and/or spread through population? What could be behind it?
> > > >I have this feeling that it is important and connected with recent
> > > >discussions on religion/behavior memes etc...
> > >
> > > The Shakers were a religious sect that used dancing for ceremonial
> > > purposes. Did Shakerism appear because dancing was forbidden or
> > > discouraged? Were they driven to the New World?
> > >
> > > Do modern dance fads meet with similar reprobation?
> >
> >According to newspaper reports in the UK, the new Attorney General of the
> >United States is opposed to dancing on religious and moral grounds.
> There
> >has
> >been no mention that he singles out faddish dancing.
> >
> >
> Well, if so, someone needs to play Kevin Bacon to his rendition of John
> Lithgow.
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