Author: Rachel Breunlin
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
ISBN: 9780970619075
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Ronald W. Lewis has assembled a museum to the various worlds he inhabits. Built in 2003, the House of Dance & Feathers represents many New Orleans societies: Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, Bone Gangs, and Parade Krewes. More than just a catalogue of the artifacts in the museum, this full-color book is a detailed map of these worlds as experienced by Ronald W. Lewis.
House Dance
Author: Dan Worrall
Publisher: Rollston Press
ISBN: 9781953208033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The heyday of the Anglo-German concertina (1860s to World War I) coincided with a time when social dances in houses, barns, woolsheds and community halls were all the rage in working class urban and rural areas. Along with extensive historical information and a detailed analysis of the music and the concertina players who played schottisches, polkas, quadrilles, waltzes, barn dances, mazurkas and varsoviannas from Ireland, England, Australia and South Africa, the book includes QR code links to 172 archival recordings of 36 early concertina players. Topics include nineteenth century social dance, global sources of the house dance repertoire, old-style octave playing on the concertina, the banning of house dances in twentieth century Ireland, biographies and playing styles of early concertina players on four continents, modern players in the old octave style, an extensive discography, plus a nine-lesson tutorial on how to play the Anglo concertina in the historical house dance style.
Publisher: Rollston Press
ISBN: 9781953208033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The heyday of the Anglo-German concertina (1860s to World War I) coincided with a time when social dances in houses, barns, woolsheds and community halls were all the rage in working class urban and rural areas. Along with extensive historical information and a detailed analysis of the music and the concertina players who played schottisches, polkas, quadrilles, waltzes, barn dances, mazurkas and varsoviannas from Ireland, England, Australia and South Africa, the book includes QR code links to 172 archival recordings of 36 early concertina players. Topics include nineteenth century social dance, global sources of the house dance repertoire, old-style octave playing on the concertina, the banning of house dances in twentieth century Ireland, biographies and playing styles of early concertina players on four continents, modern players in the old octave style, an extensive discography, plus a nine-lesson tutorial on how to play the Anglo concertina in the historical house dance style.
Beginning Hip-Hop Dance
Author: Durden, E. Moncell
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492544450
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Beginning Hip-Hop Dance provides dance students and general education students a strong foundation in the fundamentals of hip-hop—its techniques, styles, aesthetics, history, significant works, and artists. The text comes with a web resource of 56 video clips to aid in practicing techniques.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492544450
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Beginning Hip-Hop Dance provides dance students and general education students a strong foundation in the fundamentals of hip-hop—its techniques, styles, aesthetics, history, significant works, and artists. The text comes with a web resource of 56 video clips to aid in practicing techniques.
The House Of Dance And Feathers:
Author: Rachel Breunlin
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
ISBN: 9780970619075
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Ronald W. Lewis has assembled a museum to the various worlds he inhabits. Built in 2003, the House of Dance & Feathers represents many New Orleans societies: Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, Bone Gangs, and Parade Krewes. More than just a catalogue of the artifacts in the museum, this full-color book is a detailed map of these worlds as experienced by Ronald W. Lewis.
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
ISBN: 9780970619075
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Ronald W. Lewis has assembled a museum to the various worlds he inhabits. Built in 2003, the House of Dance & Feathers represents many New Orleans societies: Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, Bone Gangs, and Parade Krewes. More than just a catalogue of the artifacts in the museum, this full-color book is a detailed map of these worlds as experienced by Ronald W. Lewis.
The Anglo-German Concertina
Author: Dan Michael Worrall
Publisher: Dan Michael Worrall
ISBN: 0982599609
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Publisher: Dan Michael Worrall
ISBN: 0982599609
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
House of Dance
Author: Beth Kephart
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061919012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Rosie and her mother coexist in the same house as near strangers. Since Rosie's father abandoned them years ago, her mother has accomplished her own disappearing act, spending more time with her boss than with Rosie. Now faced with losing her grandfather too, Rosie begins to visit him every day, traveling across town to his house, where she helps him place the things that matter most to him "In Trust." As Rosie learns her grandfather's story, she discovers the role music and motion have played in it. But like colors, memories fade. When Rosie stumbles into the House of Dance, she finally finds a way to restore the source of her grandfather's greatest joy. Eloquently told, National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart's House of Dance is a powerful celebration of life and the people we love who make it worthwhile.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061919012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Rosie and her mother coexist in the same house as near strangers. Since Rosie's father abandoned them years ago, her mother has accomplished her own disappearing act, spending more time with her boss than with Rosie. Now faced with losing her grandfather too, Rosie begins to visit him every day, traveling across town to his house, where she helps him place the things that matter most to him "In Trust." As Rosie learns her grandfather's story, she discovers the role music and motion have played in it. But like colors, memories fade. When Rosie stumbles into the House of Dance, she finally finds a way to restore the source of her grandfather's greatest joy. Eloquently told, National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart's House of Dance is a powerful celebration of life and the people we love who make it worthwhile.
Last Dance
Author: Linda Joy Singleton
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738716847
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Sabine can’t wait to show off her new boyfriend. But a fifty-year-old ghost named Chloe has been appearing in Sabine’s dreams. Despite death threats and missing the school dance, Sabine must use her psychic skills to solve the mystery surrounding Chloe’s untimely demise.
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738716847
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Sabine can’t wait to show off her new boyfriend. But a fifty-year-old ghost named Chloe has been appearing in Sabine’s dreams. Despite death threats and missing the school dance, Sabine must use her psychic skills to solve the mystery surrounding Chloe’s untimely demise.
The Falling Down Dance
Author: Chris Martin
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566894271
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Martin's lines are a brief as breath, and cloister us at home, in winter, where the tiny everyday ministrations of love and parenthood are magnified and abundant with meaning. I wanted to tell you something About the shipwreck Of fatherhood, of motherhood, the coarse Sugar leaving us Shook. Soft wreck of the baby Greeting each kiss With an open And drooling mouth, reflex We don't understand Heart-blip stuck Tipping my finger On the keys, speeding Memory of yesterday out The window I'm Pushing barely open Chris Martin is the author of American Music (Copper Canyon, 2007) and Becoming Weather (Coffee House Press, 2011).
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566894271
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Martin's lines are a brief as breath, and cloister us at home, in winter, where the tiny everyday ministrations of love and parenthood are magnified and abundant with meaning. I wanted to tell you something About the shipwreck Of fatherhood, of motherhood, the coarse Sugar leaving us Shook. Soft wreck of the baby Greeting each kiss With an open And drooling mouth, reflex We don't understand Heart-blip stuck Tipping my finger On the keys, speeding Memory of yesterday out The window I'm Pushing barely open Chris Martin is the author of American Music (Copper Canyon, 2007) and Becoming Weather (Coffee House Press, 2011).
The Dance House
Author: Joe Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A combination of eloquent, down-to-earth essays and short stories, "The Dance House" features tales that are based on incidents or events which took place on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A combination of eloquent, down-to-earth essays and short stories, "The Dance House" features tales that are based on incidents or events which took place on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
The Blue Jay's Dance
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060927011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A novelist writes of her experiences during a 12 month period through pregnancy, new motherhood, and return to writing.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060927011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A novelist writes of her experiences during a 12 month period through pregnancy, new motherhood, and return to writing.
Dance at Grandpa's
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780759343
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
My First Little House Book.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780759343
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
My First Little House Book.