Download or read book Going to the Palais written by James J. Nott and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2015 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Charleston to the Twist, Going to the Palais provides a lively and vivid account of dancing and its interaction with race, gender, class, and national identity in Britain from 1918 to 1960, exploring the pivotal role dancehalls and dancing played in twentieth-century British social and cultural history.