Folk

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792313250Author Mandakranta BoseFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic PublishersWeight(grams) 666g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946989345Author Jim GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Full Court PressPublisher Full Court PressWeight(grams) 590g

Throughout its history, the United States has become a new home for thousands of immigrants, all of whom have brought their own traditions and expressions of ethnicity. Not least among these customs are folk dances, which over time have become visual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879725709Author CalabriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

The language of the body is a central text in the study of flamenco on the global stage. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the...

Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinating elements of African life manifested themselves richly in the New World, and among the most lasting and influential of these was the art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574411188Author Betty CaseyFormat PaperbackImprint University of North Texas Press,U.S.Publisher University of North Texas Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494033972Author Lee OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419663017Author Boyd RothenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258835347Author Lee OwensFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 413g

This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England...

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Ukrainian dance is remarkably enduring in its popularity and still performed in numerous cultural contexts. This text unpacks the complex world of this ethnic dance, with special attention to the differences between vival dance (which requires being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692099667Author Gabriela Mendoza-GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Mexico Lindo PressPublisher Mexico Lindo PressWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865346345Author Sylvia RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

For many people step dancing is associated mainly with the Irish step-dance stage shows, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which assisted both in promoting the dance form and in placing Ireland globally. But, in this book, Catherine Foley illustrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395207Author Kay JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why...

Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland -- until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish...

Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland--until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish...

Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395511Author Kay JohnstonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Ideal for anyone with an interest in Hindu temple dance, Manipur dance, cross-cultural collaborations, and the globalising of Indian Classical Dance Comprehensive study of how an exceptional Hindu dance form developed on the global stage. Provides...

The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur's Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789383522Author Anthony ShayFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect BooksWeight(grams) 170g

Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014 Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014 de la Torre Bueno (R) Special Citation, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013From Christopher...

This book commences with the history of Indian, Egyptian, Arab, and flamenco dance, then compares and contrasts the history of both classical ballet and flamenco. The book outlines the early roots of flamenco in India, and the journey of the Romani...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914311062Author Claudie Marcel-DuboisFormat HardbackPage Count 42Imprint Noverre PressPublisher Noverre PressWeight(grams) 127g