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‘Expressive crowds. Not all crowds act.* In some crowds the participants are largely preoccupied with themselves or with one another, and with participation in a common experience.** Beginning as early as the 7^th century in Europe, and continuing throughout the Middle Ages, there were reported epidemics in which groups of people were caught up in a frenzy of dancing that continued until they dropped. Later a collective frenzy of dancing,**** singing and shouting became a regular feature of frontier revivals in 19^th-century America. Crowds that exceeded conventional limits of revelry have been common in many historical eras. In San Francisco in 1945, licence for public violation of sexual mores characterised the day of celebration at the end of the war with Japan.

‘Expressive crowds may be secular or religious. What distinguishes them is that the production of a shared subjective experience is the crowd’s measure of its accomplishment, rather than any action upon objects outside the crowd....’

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