Stuart Jeffries

The dark history of dance marathons

The craze that swept the US in the Roaring Twenties became a theatre of cruelty that fed on the desperation of Depression-era Americans

Bop till you drop: a dance marathon in Culver City, California, 1928. Credit: Granger/Bridgeman Images 
issue 27 March 2021
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