MEDIA
Borgerson, Schroeder: Midcentury Instructional Records, Popular Music Books series, June 2023.
Popular Music Books Series, International Association for the Study of Popular Music
June 12, 2023 Zoom
Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder discuss and play show-and-tell for their trilogy of books on mid-20th-century LPs that offered instructions for dancing, lifestyles, and 'success,' June 12, 2023, in the Popular Music Books in Process Series.
The authors of "Designed For Dancing" share examples of Cha Cha Cha record album covers that didn’t quite make the final cut in their book.
Jerry Jazz Musician
Michigan Alum
Winter 2022-23
Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance: “Outtakes” — Vol. 1
December 5th, 2022
Best Non-fiction Book Covers
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
Mid-Century Song and Dance:
Ron Hicklin + Janet Borgerson + Jonathan Schroeder
Interlochen Public Radio
July 22, 2022
Jerry Jazz Musician
Book Excerpt from Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance, by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder
June 22, 2022
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.
ACHOF “Featured Fan Collection” Interview – Professors Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson
May 27, 2022
Essential album (covers) for International Dance Day
Friday, 29 April, 2022
(585) Magazine
Put on your dancing shoes
Midcentury albums tell the story of dance in America; photos by Tomas Flint
April 25, 2022
THE MIT PRESS READER
Calypso Confusion
“Harry Belafonte’s best-selling album “Calypso!” propelled the genre into mainstream American consciousness, but its celebration of Jamaica launched a fundamental misunderstanding that obscured calypso’s origins and colonialist history.”
By: Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder
Quick Easy Listening Vinyl Haul
Designed for Dancing featured on Kaiwaza’s Quick Easy Listening Vinyl Haul Episode.
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
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.
Read My Lips Radio
Retro Cocktail Hour
Dave, The Caregiver's Caregiver
Finding Fun and Connection with Vintage Vinyl Records & Jackets
Wire
by Dave Mandl
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
Designed For Dancing:
How Midcentury Records Taught America To Dance
Go! Latin Dance
@jenniferotterbickerdike
Crushing massive on this gorgeous book by #janetborgerson & #jonathanschroder #designedfordancing about #vinylrecords from @mitpress LOVE IT.
The Daily Heller: Dance, Design and the American Dream
by Steven Heller
Midcentury Dance Records and Representations of Identity
In this contribution to ISRF [Independent Social Research Foundation] Bulletin 23, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder discuss what the covers of dance records can tell us about the history of racial identity in the United States.