this happened in many times and many places..
the Romany in Hungary and Romania started the
Dance House movement in response to similar bans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1nch%C3%A1z

http://www.indiana.edu/~ceus/events/HungarianSymposium.pdf

http://www.fulbright.hu/book1/marytaylor.pdf