https://www.designedfordancing.net/about-avenue daily 0.75 2021-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623700890865-PHA9AI78VSRF0HGTVRAO/Borgerson_End_1Left.jpg ABOUT THE BOOK https://www.designedfordancing.net/welcome-miller daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://www.designedfordancing.net/main daily 1.0 2024-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/cf96566a-40b4-4f6d-8033-f71d4fdb67f4/EndPapers_2Right.jpg Home Dancing allowed people to sample aspirational lifestyles, whether at the Plaza or in a smoky Parisian café, and to affirm ancestral identities with Irish, Polish, or Greek folk dancing. Dance records invited consumers to dance in the footsteps of the Other with “hot” Latin music, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and Hawaiian hulas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/949708a6-e795-4faf-9bb2-68f180410c16/Cover.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1634743966238-4CML29IS4L6XP6Z5G87N/America+is+a+Dancing+Land%2C+Decca+advertisement%2C+1947 Home In Designed for Dancing, vinyl record aficionados Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder celebrate dance records of the 1950s and 1960s as expressions of midcentury identity, fantasy, and desire. The stories begin with the memorable and striking album covers which were central to the way records were produced and promoted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1632323405437-T5TTZ4NDFDZRE92AKFOY/CedarPolkaFest.jpg Home - About the Authors Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder are a creative team – writing, teaching, and collecting vinyl records together for over 25 years. Their previous book, Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America, was named a best book of 2017 by the Financial Times and a best music book of 2017 by Vinyl Factory. (Here at the 2021 Polka Festival in Cedar, Michigan.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1679678091425-DF2LJYVWOIKX8JZQZTXO/fig_7-2.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1653679444027-NP6LYIIUQXK68PZSZRT7/fig_8-1.jpg Home - Tito Puente Dancing Under Latin Stars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1653679444877-P26WY6FVBA4HTP7XY53D/fig_8-3.jpg Home - Latin Favorites Miguel Lopez and his Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1653679439542-7T9LNSBPEGVYDFH9GQVB/fig_8-6.jpg Home - West Side Beat Tito Rodriguez and his Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1653679439990-N38TDFXZODVGBTX90DL9/fig_8-10.jpg Home - The Dancing Beat of the Latin Bands Prado Cugat, Puente Esquivel, and Arcaraz Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1643630654891-7OFKRQVWA9PY8QLZ3WJ4/fig_8-8.jpg Home - Lox, Latin and Bongos The Irving Fields Trio High King Fidelity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1643630538850-SFGJJ0CO8MGILXIAG40L/fig_8-2.jpg Home - Take Me Dancing! The Latin Rhythms of Astor Piazola & His Quintet TI CO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1647275047231-F7ZDVXSJ57PRRJ9BRIYO/fig_5-15.jpg Home - Come to the Ceili Favorite Irish Dances The Gallowglass Ceili Band Top Rank International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1643630759406-3499KCQSAZK0Y5N8LE1F/fig_25-15.jpg Home - Soul Sauce Paul Griffin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623424723800-WRWVYPN85YB3N0HZ0V59/fig_19-2.jpg Home - Hula Album Cover Columbia Records https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355635678-QSYQACUZLEPLOZWJ5QH8/fig_16-2.jpg Home - Let's Dance the Merengue Album Cover Dolton Records https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355601574-4SYJ9R8GQ1FLPI131FSR/fig_11-9.jpg Home - Waltzes - Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra Album Cover Columbia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355549559-KTJHQUTL0DRHBS1Z1PYQ/fig_8-5.jpg Home - Beat Tropicale Latin Rhytyms by Jose Bethancourt and His Orchestra and Savage Drum Fantasy featuring Richard Campbell and Harry H. Coon Album Cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355508794-YMFP5FH2C4ZH3D8MMDK0/fig_25-7.jpg Home - The Watusi - Bobby Jay and the Hawks Album Cover Warner Brothers Records https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355388287-O8EHXKEUVZ50JURWQCZV/fig_25-5.jpg Home - Barney Kessel Plus Big Band Bossa Nova Album Cover reprise https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355336589-O0LUFM1H3S4NIIMAVA2Z/fig_25-13.jpg Home - The Supremes A' Go-Go Album Cover Motown Records https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355304641-HVM7MAVZM2QM1XSE6IUK/fig_7-1.jpg Home - Calypso Dance by the Jue Loco Band Album Cover Mercury Records https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355281414-U9FS94NB7B8AHR1GVAF8/fig_5-8.jpg Home - By the Waters of the Minnetonka - The Marty Gold Orchestra & Chorus Album Cover Kapp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355237208-24R10TTCIHR65YOQZLXK/fig_5-1.jpg Home - Happy Folk Dances by Michael Herman's Dance Orchestra Album Cover RCA Victor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623355185664-OAWPL8CH3Q85OGDO7D2M/fig_1-29.jpg Home - Dance Be Happy Album Cover Columbia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1637669957231-MLU5UACXTK50ILSD2T64/make-mine-mambo.jpg Home - Make Mine Mambo - Joe Loco TI CO - A Division of Roulette Records, Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623700833275-8LJLB7SSK64MILW0ZZIO/Borgerson_End_1Left.jpg Home Bought at a local supermarket, department store, or record shop, and listened to in the privacy of home, midcentury dance records offered instruction in how to dance, how to dress, how to date, and how to discover cool new music—lessons for harmonizing with the rest of postwar America. https://www.designedfordancing.net/media daily 0.75 2023-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/3b682634-13a1-4076-9f1f-06a8ec6553c8/Screenshot+2022-07-28+090344.png Media - Interlochen Public Radio July 22, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/f8a1cbad-36aa-4599-a1f5-d5688a38040b/underconsideration-tweet-album-covers.png Media - Album Cover Hall of Fame.com ACHOF “Featured Fan Collection” Interview – Professors Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson May 27, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/aa659a78-e7f2-47cb-9bbf-1066fd0fed25/retro+cocktail+hour.png Media - Retro Cocktail Hour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/dc4dcf09-5baf-46b2-b918-7a1e5e203e3d/album+cover+photos-+its+dance+time+latin+favorites+and+cha+cha+cha.png Media - Art Chantry recently i was sent this wonderful copy of this (thick) book "DESIGNING FOR DANCING" by Janet Borgerson & Jonathan Schroeder. it's not only a Cha Cha Cha record cover book, they also reproduce all sorts of amazing wonderful record covers from assorted pop dance crazes of the 50/60's dance era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/7a81b536-7c39-468b-a7ba-4a16f49a5f5a/Screen+Shot+2022-01-26+at+11.13.12+AM.jpg Media - Quick Easy Listening Vinyl Haul Designed for Dancing featured on Kaiwaza’s Quick Easy Listening Vinyl Haul Episode. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/08ea7f78-5f6a-4177-b20d-7e0697ae2c11/Screenshot+2022-12-14+121355.jpg Media - Michigan Alum Winter 2022-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/b938a3b8-5c47-4f2b-b5ea-7073971f9393/Screenshot+2022-05-20+121709.png Media - The MIT Press Essential album (covers) for International Dance Day Friday, 29 April, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/426a1907-2d56-4605-a4cd-401bd4f218de/blind.png Media - How Mid-Century Album Art Revolutionized American Pop Culture A new book explores the extraordinary impact of global dance music in post-war America. 10 JAN 2022 by Miss Rosen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/f8a1cbad-36aa-4599-a1f5-d5688a38040b/underconsideration-tweet-album-covers.png Media - UnderConsideration @ucllc Today on Brand New (Linked): A whole lot of Mid-century design inspiration to be found in "Designed for Dancing", a book by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder that celebrates dance records — and their album covers — from the 1950s and 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/ee29b6e3-80aa-4464-b8ca-d0c4022f8088/Borgerson_End_1Left.jpg Media - Designed For Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America To Dance Go! 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Jerry Jazz Musician https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/f8a1cbad-36aa-4599-a1f5-d5688a38040b/underconsideration-tweet-album-covers.png Media - Best Non-fiction Book Covers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1623424663402-7CPAWNKM6YGUJGDLA42X/fig_24-9.jpg Media - One for the “Record” Books Designed for Dancing explores the era of Mid-century vinyl and how it shaped American culture Northern Express by Craig Manning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/3e286fc8-b412-4d0e-a793-91595a21f396/dance-spectacular-album-cover.png Media - Jerry Jazz Musician Interview with Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder, authors of Designed For Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance August 20, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1634844470653-7BK3MISO45GUGILPN903/Elgart150.xjpg_.jpg Media - The Daily Heller: Dance, Design and the American Dream Print by Steven Heller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1635527232899-MBX4B187RNEI75ZTF78I/Jennifer-Otter-Bickerdike.PNG Media - @jenniferotterbickerdike Crushing massive on this gorgeous book by #janetborgerson & #jonathanschroder #designedfordancing about #vinylrecords from @mitpress LOVE IT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/05eb6bc6-68e3-43f6-aee5-7ea5797c2e54/read+my+lips+with+aka+radio+red.jpg Media - Read My Lips Radio with Akaradiored https://www.designedfordancing.net/events daily 0.75 2023-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/86d4aa3f-6250-45ee-aebf-e8d733a6b86b/Screenshot+2023-03-24+130116.jpg Events - Fantasy: Colonial Imaginations of Caribbean Culture in Mid-Century Calypso Album Cover Art with CoLA’s Nikesia Gordon, Jonathan Schroeder & Professor Kehbuma Langmia of Howard University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/f563a2f7-0a4c-43cb-a8b6-31bf4d5952bf/Screenshot+2023-03-24+130845.jpg Events - Goldsmiths | University of London Music Research Series presents Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder 9 Mar 2023, 6:00pm - 7:30pm 309, Richard Hoggart Building https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c26a8a22aaaa2bc2024878/1635527794162-4U55F8CTDKOMCA5D2FLV/c4adc46a3d14ff51ac59edb0a684fc0e.png Events - Modernism Week 2022 Designed for Dancing presentation at Modernism Week 2022. https://www.designedfordancing.net/playlists daily 0.75 2023-03-24 https://www.designedfordancing.net/menu-motto daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://www.designedfordancing.net/home-motto daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/572785f0cf80a1643d2baa33/1469640916516-EYJJORKJ943O0GN3NNDD/image-asset.jpeg Home https://www.designedfordancing.net/reservations-motto daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://www.designedfordancing.net/chef-motto daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/572785f0cf80a1643d2baa33/1470171605044-O0RDP60SLMX22N29IZFW/20160421S1_RAMEN_LAB_COOKING_401.jpg Chef https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/572785f0cf80a1643d2baa33/1470171371746-C477FVWCV69TFGVAE5NQ/20160421S1_RAMEN_LAB_TORCH_066.jpg Chef https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/572785f0cf80a1643d2baa33/1470171369893-37AFC1XKVWUOZCSEVIDB/20160421S1_RAMEN_LAB_MAKING_078.jpg Chef https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/572785f0cf80a1643d2baa33/1470171370956-3RY3SZMCK1NKOJEKMPUZ/20160421S1_RAMEN_LAB_MAKING_212.jpg Chef https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/572785f0cf80a1643d2baa33/1470171332618-4VRQIKD0D7M14062KCMQ/image-asset.jpeg Chef https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/572785f0cf80a1643d2baa33/1470171296623-7N9VLOR835PQK1POUJJ3/image-asset.jpeg Chef https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/572785f0cf80a1643d2baa33/1469643779061-MTXHG0IVONURX93BMP8T/image-asset.jpeg Chef