Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… into the category of personhood that was negotiated through a sociable performance of anonymity and new ‘selves’ in the traditions of Locke and Hume. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Assemblies … twofold manner: as a crowd event of the newly emerging public sphere and a selective elitist assembly, deriving from the tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century court-based masked balls, even if the boundaries separating the two … Culture and Fiction (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986). The rise of the masquerade thus understood is traditionally attributed to the arrival of John James Heidegger (1659-1749), a Swiss impresario, who came to England in …
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