Author: Anthony G. Barrand
Publisher:
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Category : Morris-dance
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060006463
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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A young man searches for three people more foolish than his fiancée and her parents.

Author: Cecil James Sharp
Publisher: London : Novello and Company
ISBN:
Category : Morris dance
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 926

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Author: Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113436122X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 739

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In her unique collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers, Valerie Preston-Dunlop presents a comprehensive view of people in dance: what they do, their movement, their sound, and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of the performers, choreographers, audiences, administrators, and teachers. The words and phrases of their technical and vernacular languages, which are used to communicate what is essentially a non-verbal activity, have been collected in rehearsal classes and workshops by interviews, and from published sources. In this first collection of its kind Valerie Preston-Dunlop extends her selection of verbal language to include the various social and theatrical domains of dance.

Author: Susan Eike Spalding
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096452
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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In Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities, Susan Eike Spalding brings to bear twenty-five years' worth of rich interviews with black and white Virginians, Tennesseeans, and Kentuckians to explore the evolution and social uses of dance in each region. Spalding analyzes how issues as disparate as industrialization around coal, plantation culture, race relations, and the 1970s folk revival influenced freestyle clogging and other dance forms like square dancing in profound ways. She reveals how African Americans and Native Americans, as well as European immigrants drawn to the timber mills and coal fields, brought movement styles that added to local dance vocabularies. Placing each community in its sociopolitical and economic context, Spalding analyzes how the formal and stylistic nuances found in Appalachian dance reflect the beliefs, shared understandings, and experiences of the community at large, paying particular attention to both regional and racial diversity. Written in clear and accessible prose, Appalachian Dance is a lively addition to the literature and a bold contribution to scholarship concerned with the meaning of movement and the ever-changing nature of tradition.

Author: Mary Essex
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Sandra Billington
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571299997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Who is the Fool and what does he mean to us? Pre-1900 scholars thought him a Renaissance fashion, a continental import of note in the British Isles only between 1486 and the 1630s, per his appearances in Shakespeare's plays. However, as Sandra Billington shows in this pioneering study, the Fool has been with us from medieval times and has worn many guises: village idiot and sophisticated comedian, embodiment of Satan and God's own jester. He has managed, as Billington notes, 'to inspire or infect our thinking for at least eight hundred years'.