A letter from the First Presidency requested members to refrain from “dances that require or permit the close embrace and suggestive movements” and pleaded that we “let not the brilliant prospects of a glorious millenium be clouded with such shadows as are threatened by customs and costumes and diversions of these licentious days.” When were “these licentious days”? The letter was written in 1912. What “suggestive” dance was condemned? The waltz.
Pop Music & Morality by Lex de Azevedo. Embryo Books. 1982. p.49
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