Many of us will remember the film Footloose, about a small American town that banned dancing with a quintessentially 80s soundtrack.
Turns out, the story wasn't that fantastical - throughout history there have been many times that authorities have tried to stop Americans from dancing.
From the strictly religious mid-1800s, to New York's Cabaret laws of the 1920s, law enforcement's issue with getting down is well-documented. We speak to VICE journalist Emilie Friedlander, who edited a series about it.
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