Penn, W. E. creator text mou St. Louis, Mo L. E. Kline 1884 monographic eng

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58 p. 15 cm. The basic premise in this antidance treatise is typical of this genre of dance literature; namely, dance is bad for the health and is a waste of money. The author utilizes a novel approach and uses trees as metaphors to support his arguments. Some trees are "not comely to look upon, but the fruit very good." Other trees have dangerous fruit, and the author concludes that samples of the fruit found on the tree of dancing include "pride, lasciviousness, lying, drunkenness, embezzlement, fornication, cruelty, idolatry, prostitution, abortion, and assassination." The manual was reissued in 1886 as The upas tree. by W. E. Penn, with an introduction by Rev. J. H. Stribling ... Published later under title: The upas tree ... Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. Dance Moral and ethical aspects Antidance Literature GV1741 .P4 ca 07006255 hdl:loc.music/musdi.136 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.136 DLC 781018 20260227111046.0 ca 07006255