Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing Drawn Out of the Quiver of the Scriptures
Author: An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing: Drawn Out of the Quiver of the Scriptures
Author: Increase MatherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing
Author: Increase MatherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing
Author: Increase MatherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Adversaries of Dance
Author: Ann Louise WagnerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065903
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial "dance palace," or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral--more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States. Wagner bases her work on the thesis that the tradition of opposition to dance "derived from white, male, Protestant clergy and evangelists who argued from a narrow and selective interpretation of biblical passages," and that the opposition thrived when denominational dogma held greater power over people's lives and when women's social roles were strictly limited. Central to Wagner's work, which will be welcomed by scholars of both religion and dance, are issues of gender, race, and socioeconomic status. "There are no other works that even begin to approach this definitive accomplishment." --Amanda Porterfield, author of Female Piety in Puritan New England
Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing
Author: Increase MatherPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497895485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1684 Edition.
Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage
Author: Ray MillerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000876020
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. This book explores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical, folk, and social dance imports and America’s indigenous dance forms as they met and collided on the popular musical theatre stage. This historical background influenced a specific musical theatre movement vocabulary and a unique choreographic approach that is recognizable today as Broadway-style dancing. Throughout the book, a cultural context is woven into the history to reveal how the competing values within American culture, and its attempts as a nation to define and redefine itself, played out through developments in dance on the musical theatre stage. This book is central to the conversation on how dance influences and reflects society, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Musical Theatre, Theatre Studies, Dance, and Cultural History.
Increase Mather, the Foremost American Puritan
Author: Kenneth Ballard MurdockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
I See America Dancing
Author: Maureen NeedhamPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069994
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan Age of New England to the Present Day
Author: Henry Wilder FootePublisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
