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Thinking Allowed: Dance halls, Pick-up artists

30/03/2016

Dance halls, Pick-up artists

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Laurie Taylor discusses the social and cultural history of 'going to the Palais'.

Laurie Taylor discusses the social and cultural history of 'going to the Palais'. Plus a study of self-styled male pick-up artists.

Dance halls: a social and cultural history. James Nott, Lecturer in History at the University of St. Andrews, talks to Laurie Taylor about the origins, meaning and decline in a ritual which was once central to many young people's romantic lives and leisure time. He's joined by Caspar Melville, Lecturer in Global, Creative and Community Studies at SOAS.

The 'Seduction Community': a study into the mores and codes of self styled, male 'pick up artists'. Rachel O'Neill, Phd graduate at Kings College London, interviewed men whose attitudes to women have attracted considerable condemnation in the wake of the banning of Julien Blanc, US 'pick up artist', from the UK.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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