Author: Peter LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780385176019
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Discusses the history of the cowboy, western clothing, and country music. Also explains western style dance.
The Complete Book of Country Swing & Western Dance, and a Bit about Cowboys
Author: Peter LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780385176019
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Discusses the history of the cowboy, western clothing, and country music. Also explains western style dance.
Dance a While
Author: Anne M. PittmanPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478629517
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Tenth Edition of Dance a While continues the 65-year legacy of a textbook that has proven to be the standard of all recreational dance resources. The authors have poured decades of experience and knowledge onto its pages, providing a wealth of direction on American, square, contra, international, and social dance. Each chapter is packed with expertly written instruction, coupled with clear and detailed diagrams and informative history, to provide students with well-rounded training on over 260 individual dances. The book also contains a music CD to allow for convenience when practicing outside of the classroom, helping to make it an invaluable resource for students of dance at all levels.
Popular Music
Author: Roman IwaschkinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317223446
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.
Dance across Texas
Author: Betty CaseyPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789904
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Generations of Texans have believed that “to dance is to live.” At rustic “play parties” and elegant cotillions, in tiny family dance halls and expansive urban honky-tonks, from historic beginnings to next Saturday night, Texans have waltzed, polkaed, schottisched, and shuffled their way across the state. In Dance across Texas, internationally known dance instructor and writer Betty Casey takes an informal look at the history of Texas dancing and, in clear diagrams, photos, and detailed instructions, tells “how to” do more than twenty Texas dances. Previously, little had been recorded about the history of dancing on the frontier. Journal and diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings preserve enticing, if sketchy, descriptions of the types of dances that were popular. Casey uses a variety of sources, including interviews and previously unpublished historical materials, such as dance cards, invitations, and photographs, to give us a delightful look at the social context of dance. The importance of dance to early Texans is documented through colorful descriptions of clothing worn to the dances, of the various locations where dances were held, ranging from a formal hall to a wagon sheet spread on the ground, and of the hardships endured to get to a dance. Also included in the historical section of Dance across Texas are notes on the “morality” of dance, the influence of country music on modern dance forms, and the popularity of such Texas dance halls and clubs as Crider’s and Gilley’s. The instruction section of the book diagrams twenty-two Texas dances, including standard waltzes and two-steps as well as the Cotton-Eyed Joe, Put Your Little Foot, Herr Schmidt, the Western Schottische, and such “whistle’” or mixer dances as Paul Jones, Popcorn, and Snowball. Clear and detailed directions for each dance, along with suggested musical selections, accompany the diagrams and photos. Dance and physical education teachers and students will find this section invaluable, and aspiring urban cowboys can follow the easy-to-read diagrammed footsteps to a satisfying spin around the honky-tonk floor. Anyone interested in dance or in the history of social customs in Texas will find much to enjoy in this refreshing and often amusing look at a Texas “national” pastime.
The Official Guide to Country Dance Steps
Author: Tony LeisnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A guide to country or "square" dancing which includes detailed instructions and a description of proper attire.
Paperbound Books in Print
Author: AB Bookman's Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Dance a While
Author: Jane A. HarrisPublisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, e, i.
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