Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… places where men and women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite being associational spaces of leisure and sociability, assembly rooms were still exclusive spaces, open to polite society and regulated by the Master of Ceremonies or Lady Directress. Places > Sports & Leisure … Women Assembly rooms were institutions that encouraged and regulated sociability in the long eighteenth century, spaces where conversation, music, and dancing occurred. According to Peter Borsay, the oldest known assembly rooms date …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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