Author: C. DURANGPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
D.'s Terpsichore; or ball room guide, etc
Author: C. DURANGHoedowns, Reels, and Frolics
Author: Phil JamisonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097327
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances, Jamison argues, are not the unaltered jigs and reels brought by early British settlers, but hybrids that developed over time by adopting and incorporating elements from other popular forms. He traces the forms from their European, African American, and Native American roots to the modern day. On the way he explores the powerful influence of black culture, showing how practices such as calling dances as well as specific kinds of steps combined with white European forms to create distinctly "American" dances. From cakewalks to clogging, and from the Shoo-fly Swing to the Virginia Reel, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics reinterprets an essential aspect of Appalachian culture.
Godey's Lady's Book
Author: Louis Antoine GodeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Includes music.
The American Catalogue ... July 1, 1876-Dec. 31, 1910
Author: Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots
Author: K. Meira GoldbergPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527579425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This collection of essays poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. How can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance? How can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.
The Uniform Trade List Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.
Distant Revolutions
Author: Timothy Mason RobertsPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813928184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism is a study of American politics, culture, and foreign relations in the mid-nineteenth century, illuminated through the reactions of Americans to the European revolutions of 1848. Flush from the recent American military victory over Mexico, many Americans celebrated news of democratic revolutions breaking out across Europe as a further sign of divine providence. Others thought that the 1848 revolutions served only to highlight how America’s own revolution had not done enough in the way of reform. Still other Americans renounced the 1848 revolutions and the thought of trans-atlantic unity because they interpreted European revolutionary radicalism and its portents of violence, socialism, and atheism as dangerous to the unique virtues of the United States. When the 1848 revolutions failed to create stable democratic governments in Europe, many Americans declared that their own revolutionary tradition was superior; American reform would be gradual and peaceful. Thus, when violence erupted over the question of territorial slavery in the 1850s, the effect was magnified among antislavery Americans, who reinterpreted the menace of slavery in light of the revolutions and counter-revolutions of Europe. For them a new revolution in America could indeed be necessary, to stop the onset of authoritarian conditions and to cure American exemplarism. The Civil War, then, when it came, was America’s answer to the 1848 revolutions, a testimony to America’s democratic shortcomings, and an American version of a violent, nation-building revolution.
John Durang
Author: Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621968936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Harrigan&Hart's S.O.T. Songster, Etc
Author: Edward HARRIGANCatalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description