The Mother of All Dance Scandals

A new dance reaches main stream culture and traditionalists use it as a stand in for everything they find objectionable about their own fading relevance. When miley cyrus twirked at the 20 13 m t v video, musical wards prudes were aghast. Conservative radio host laura ingram told her listeners that what you're hearing is the end of culture. But in truth, ingram was just echoing a century's old complaint. In the early 18 hundreds, european society was absolutely scandalized by the waltz. A nineteenth century doctor claimed that habitual dancing would take years off your life.