abstract:Dance Mania is a Chicago record label founded by Jesse Saunders in 1985. Jesse conveyed Dance Mania in 1986 to Raymond Barney when he left for Los Angeles.
Behind thestoryof "Giselle" lie thestill dismaying, well-attested historicalaccounts of dancemaniathat causeddeaths in the Rhinelandin the late medievalandearlyRenaissance eras.
On "Dance Mania" he superimposes the mambo on the old Charleston favorite "The Varsity Drag, " and uses Chinoiserie effects on "Hong Kong Mambo, " an East-West dish that reminds me of the cuisine served in the Cuban-Chinese restaurants that proliferated in New York in the 1970s.