groove together.

...."The nineteenth-century Hungarian dance floor provides an invaluable tool for mapping the contours of both an emerging civil society and the political practices of Hungarian nationalism. During the 1840s, consciously "national" costumes, music, dances, and language became de rigueur in all areas of social life, and especially on the dance floor. Because associations and newspapers linked such cultural practices to opposition politics, these balls allowed a large number of men and women usually excluded from public life to display their patriotism and political allegiances. In this way, the diffuse set of ideas, feelings, and allegiances connected with nineteenth-century liberalism and nationalism spread more widely in Hungary. "

abstract from

The Politics of the Dance Floor: 

Culture and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Hungary

by Robert Nemes