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Dance Marathons Were the Forerunners of Today’s Reality TV

The dance marathons of the Great Depression have gone down in legend as a way of turning desperate people into fodder for exploitative entertainment. The spirit of the marathons is alive and well in the contemporary world of reality TV. The economic collapse of the Depression created a new base of d.

The economic collapse of the Depression created a new base of d.

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