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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
A Brief Introductory List of Books about American Folk Dancing
Author: The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance
Author: Mary Ellen SnodgrassPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442257490
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn’t a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe. This illustrated compendium offers the student, teacher, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and general reader an overview of the evolution and social and religious significance of folk dance. The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dancefocuses on the uniqueness of kinetic performance and its contribution to the study and appreciation of rhythmic expression around the globe. Following a chronology of momentous events dating from prehistoryto the present day, the entries in this volume include material on technical terms, character roles, and specific dances. The entries also summarize the historical and ethnic milieu of each style and execution, highlighting, among other elements, such features as: origins purpose rituals and traditions props dress holidays themes
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Folklore and Folklife
Author: Richard M. DorsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226158713
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.
Dancing Cultures
Author: Hélène Neveu KringelbachPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857455761
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.
Meaning in Motion
Author: Jane DesmondPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319429
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
On dance and culture
Dance a While
Author: Jane A. HarrisPublisher:
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Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
National Rhythms, African Roots
Author: John Charles ChasteenPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826329417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America.
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