Country Dances of Colonial America
Author | : John Fitzhugh Millar |
Publisher | : Williamsburg, Va. : Thirteen Colonies Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780934943291 |
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Author | : John Fitzhugh Millar |
Publisher | : Williamsburg, Va. : Thirteen Colonies Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780934943291 |
Author | : Maureen Needham |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780252069994 |
Representing dancers, scholars, admirers, and critics, I See America Dancing is a diverse collection of primary documents and articles about the place and shape of dance in the United States from colonial times to the present. This volume offers a lively counterpoint between observers of the dance and dancers' views of what they do when they dance. Dance traditions represented include the Native American pow-wow; tribal music and dance activities on Sunday afternoons in New Orlean's Congo Square; the colonial Playford Balls and their modern offspring, country line dancing; and the Buddhist-inspired Japanese Bon dances in Hawaii. Anti-dance perspectives include government injunctions against Native American dancing and essays from a range of speakers who have declared the waltz, the twist, or the senior prom to be a careless quick-step away from hell or the brothel. I See America Dancing examines the styles that have marked theatrical dance in America, from French ballet to minstrel shows, and presents the views of influential dancers, choreographers, and the pioneers of early modern dance in America. Specific pieces examined include George Ballanchine's ballet Stars and Stripes, Yvonne Rainer's protest piece "Flag Dance, 1970," and Sonjé Mayo's "Naked in America." Covering historical social attitudes toward the dance as well as the performers and their works, I See America Dancing is a comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook that captures the energy and passion of this vital artform.
Author | : Kate Van Winkle Keller |
Publisher | : Pendragon Press |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781576471272 |
Spanish exploration and settlement -- French exploration and settlement -- The English plantation colonies in the South -- The tobacco colonies -- New England -- The Middle Atlantic colonies.
Author | : Pamela Murrow |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2019-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780359739394 |
Henry Knox was Chief Artillery Officer during the American Revolution and later served as the first Secretary of War. In 1775 he married Lucy Flucker, the daughter of a steadfast Loyalist, Thomas Flucker, Royal Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts. But who were Henry and Lucy Knox? Thus began a quest to learn more about this exceptional couple and in 2010 I discovered a collection of correspondence between Henry and Lucy. This book marks the first published edition of these letters.
Author | : Margaret Fuhrer |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-11-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1627885692 |
The most comprehensive, beautiful book ever to be published on dance in America. "We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance." Groundbreaking choreographer Martha Graham deeply understood the power and complexity of dance--particularly as it evolved in her home country. American Dance, by critic and journalist Margaret Fuhrer, traces that richly complex evolution. From Native American dance rituals to dance in the digital age, American Dance explores centuries of innovation, individual genius and collaborative exploration. Some of its stories - such as Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling or Alvin Ailey founding the trailblazing company that bears his name - will be familiar to anyone who loves dance. The complex origins of tap, for instance, or the Puritan outrage against "profane and promiscuous dancing" during the early years of the United States, are as full of mystery and humor as Graham describes. These various developments have never before been presented in a single book, making American Dance the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Breakdancing, musical-theater dance, disco, ballet, jazz, ballroom, modern, hula, the Charleston, the Texas two-step, swing--these are just some of the forms celebrated in this riveting volume Hundreds of photographs accompany the text, making American Dance as visually captivating as the works it depicts.
Author | : Phil Jamison |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0252097327 |
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.
Author | : Hélène Neveu Kringelbach |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857455761 |
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.
Author | : Patrick Taylor |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780253338358 |
Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book’s three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora. The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santería, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner’s voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of "nations" across the waters.