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Dance Culture

Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the dancefloor, from the electric slide to the tango.

Dance Culture: Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the dancefloor with the music writer, Emma Warren, whose latest research combines social history and memoir to answer the question 'why do we dance together?' Also, Melin Levent Yuna, a sociologist and anthropologist at Acibaden University, explains why Istanbul has become the Tango capital of the world, after Buenos Aires, in spite of its conservative government.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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28 minutes

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Mon 8 May 202300:15
BBC Radio 4

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Guests and further reading

Emma Warren, writer & music journalist.

Book: Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor (Faber)


Melin Levent Yuna, Sociologist and cultural anthropologist at Acibadem University Book: Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul(Routledge)

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  • Wed 3 May 202316:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Mon 8 May 202300:15
    BBC Radio 4

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