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Elements of English Country Dance
Author | : Hugh Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Country dancing |
ISBN | : 9780951919316 |
City Folk
Author | : Daniel J. Walkowitz |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479890359 |
This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition and rehearsed its steps. In City Folk, Daniel J. Walkowitz argues that the history of country and folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political liberalism and the ‘old left.’ He situates folk dancing within surprisingly diverse contexts, from progressive era reform, and playground and school movements, to the changes in consumer culture, and the project of a modernizing, cosmopolitan middle class society. Tracing the spread of folk dancing, with particular emphases on English Country Dance, International Folk Dance, and Contra, Walkowitz connects the history of folk dance to social and international political influences in America. Through archival research, oral histories, and ethnography of dance communities, City Folk allows dancers and dancing bodies to speak. From the norms of the first half of the century, marked strongly by Anglo-Saxon traditions, to the Cold War nationalism of the post-war era, and finally on to the counterculture movements of the 1970s, City Folk injects the riveting history of folk dance in the middle of the story of modern America.
Christy Lane's Complete Book of Line Dancing
Author | : Christy Lane |
Publisher | : Human Kinetics |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780736000673 |
Teaches the national versions of the 22 most popular line dances.
An Introduction to English Country Dancing
Author | : Rebecca Suerdieck |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2012-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1105527808 |
This book was created to offer Readers a deeper appreciation of English Country Dancing. Topics covered in the book include: history of this form of dance, style notes, sheet music, and instructions for several 17th and 18th century dances. Tips are given for hosting Period Dance events, how to ""call"" the dances, and information for Musicians. Several dances are included for family and younger audiences. Fully illustrated with many period images.
Why is this Country Dancing?
Author | : John Krich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Music echoes on every page of this superb portrait of South America's most diverse country, by the author of El Beisbol and Music in Every Room. This remarkable book is both a vivid look at a vast land, where the cult of pleasure lives side by side with grinding poverty, and the first in-depth study of the music and musicians of the most musical country on Earth.
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics
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.
Old English Country Dances
Author | : Frank Kidson |
Publisher | : London : W. Reeves |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Country-dances (Music) |
ISBN | : |
Kubla Khan
Author | : Samuel Coleridge |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1443442216 |
Though left uncompleted, “Kubla Khan” is one of the most famous examples of Romantic era poetry. In it, Samuel Coleridge provides a stunning and detailed example of the power of the poet’s imagination through his whimsical description of Xanadu, the capital city of Kublai Khan’s empire. Samuel Coleridge penned “Kubla Khan” after waking up from an opium-induced dream in which he experienced and imagined the realities of the great Mongol ruler’s capital city. Coleridge began writing what he remembered of his dream immediately upon waking from it, and intended to write two to three hundred lines. However, Coleridge was interrupted soon after and, his memory of the dream dimming, was ultimately unable to complete the poem. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
The Things They Carried
Author | : Tim O'Brien |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547420293 |
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.