“Disco” summons a variety of images to the minds of urban dwellers in the United States today. Many people think of teenagers carrying portable stereo tape players, sometimes called “ghetto blasters,” and recall how their loud and pulsating presence unceremoniously overwhelms all human life along their path. Some think of chic, glittering couples dancing the night away in dark discotheques. Whatever the image, disco is perceived as a style—of dancing, music, clothes. Disco is a social scene, a fad, a craze.Disco is also, undeniably, a multi-media phenomenon, depending not only on the direct contact of social relationships but information and services transmitted by different forms of mass media. The movie Saturday Night Fever (1977) was possibly the single most important mass media event in heightening public awareness of disco dancing in the last several years. But every day, networks of media and entertainment industry ideas are negotiated and guided out to the public at large. These negotiations involve interplay between national and local television, the recording industry and local radio, local radio and the public, and then several levels of inter- and intra-community relationships. Popular images of disco are a conglomerate of data from these myriad sources.

The study of Jewish wedding dances, as represented in this volume, is a new and exciting endeavor. There are untold riches of dance customs and wedding celebrations to be found among the Jewish peoples of the world. A better understanding of these customs will help illuminate the complex nature of Jewish dance traditions and the importance of dancing in Jewish social life.This paper will discuss the wedding dances performed by the Jews of Eastern Europe. It is ironic that although the majority of Jews in North America are of East European heritage, this dance tradition is probably the one about which we know the least. The reasons for this are complicated, but one of the most important factors is that the dance tradition did not adapt very well to Jewish life in the New World, unlike, for example, food traditions. The foodways of East European Jewish culture have persisted voraciously in New World communities. In fact, in many parts of the country, Jewish foodways have had a profound influence on the culinary repertoire of non-Jewish America. In contrast, the dancing that was part of traditional Jewish social life in Eastern Europe has dwindled, surviving primarily in the Jewish wedding and other rites of passage.

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