Joanne Gottlieb’s scientific contributions

... Indeed, given the valorisation of all things 'Irish' by dominant groups during this period, it seems that a countervailing exotic gaze arose among young people so that the 'foreign' became an object of desire. In this way, London and New York exerted a type of centrifugal pull away from the national territory, one that countered the more centripetal dynamic of official moral geographies (Cresswell, 2006;Docker, 1994). Cosmopolitanism of a similar sort, and a fascination with the urban, was also evident in Britain and Germany where 'swing youths' communicated with each other in the patois of American street slang (Back, 1997;Parsonage, 2005). ...

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A Dancing Agency: Jazz, Modern and Ballroom Dancers in Ireland between 1940 and 1960