Folk dancing Books

This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys,...

Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of...

A land of wine and song, of love and laughter - the magic of Italy is reflected in the wealth of her dances, which range from the stylised Chain dances of Sardinia and the Sword dances of Piedmont to the courting mimes that belong mainly to the central...

Poland, birthplace of Polonaise and Mazurka, possesses a passionate love of music and dancing which has survived the ravages of many foreign invaders, from Genghis Khan and his dreaded Tartars down to more recent oppressions.There are many and varied...

„Olyan érzékeny és szemléletes. Imádom a formákat és a képeket, amiket előidéz bennem, amikor olvasom!"Alejandra Mantiñan - a 'Személyes fejlődésed útjának jelentése a tangóban' című fejezetről.„A legtöbb nyelvre lefordított tangóról szóló könyv a...

"Congress is dancing" said the Prince de Ligne of the Congress of Vienna, and in 1814, when he made his famous quip, dancing was already part and parcel of Austrian life. After 1918, when Austria as a nation found herself again, the old peasant dances...

The enthusiasm with which Scottish gatherings all over the world welcome the strains of a Reel tune or a stately Strathspey is no less marked today than it was in the eighteenth century, when an English visitor to an Edinburgh ballroom noted, 'The moment...

With civil rights and anti-war anthems scoring as chart hits, folk was the music that gave birth to the 1960s. ABC-TVs HOOTENANNY dared to present folksingers to a mass audience "every Saturday night" and launched a craze that swept the nation. From LPs...

With civil rights and anti-war anthems scoring as chart hits, folk was the music that gave birth to the 1960s. ABC-TVs HOOTENANNY dared to present folksingers to a mass audience "every Saturday night" and launched a craze that swept the nation. From LPs...

To any lover of the dance the exotic rhythms of the Portuguese folk dances must have an irresistible fascination. Mrs. Armstrong, who has lived in Portugal for many years and made a special study of Portuguese dancing, gives in this book a...

Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. Traditional scholarship on this custom has been based on the assumption that morris dancing is one of the pagan calendar rituals, a preconception held...

 Shades of Legacy Imaginative Indian Stories is an entrancing display that rises above existence to exhibit the rich embroidery of India's social legacy through an energetic range of creative articulations. This vivid experience welcomes guests on a...

The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint's days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper Río Grande valley in New Mexico and elsewhere in the American Southwest. It derives from a genre of...

Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices.Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the...

This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today.Designed for weekly use in dance history courses,...

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...

The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint's days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper Río Grande valley in New Mexico and elsewhere in the American Southwest. It derives from a genre of medieval...

Since the dawn of recorded history, Khmer royalty nurtured a sacred dance style unique to their Asian kingdom, yet instantly recognizable throughout the world. In 1913, George Groslier published the first Western study of this ancient art. For nearly a...

The Morris Book, Part 4: With A Description Of Dances As Performed By The Morris Men Of England (1911) is a comprehensive guide to the traditional English folk dance known as Morris dancing. Written by Cecil James Sharp, a prominent figure in the English...

Throughout Bulgaria at a variety of occasions, festive, religious, or social, the people will gather to join in their national Horo, a gay dance with countless variations of music and step, in a circular or chain formation for any number of dancers...

The traditional dances of Merrie England, thatonce earned us the name of 'the dancing English',were all but lost under the soot and grime of theIndustrial Revolution. Only the devoted laboursand patient research of Cecil Sharp saved themfrom extinction:...

This book gives a fascinating account ofSwitzerland's rich heritage of dance and song- a heritage to which all the four races of theSwiss have contributed their varying shares.The clog dances of the Alpine cowherds andtheir well-known yodelling songs,...

'A circle whose centre is the devil himself,and whose participants are dancing towardseternal death.' Thus did a medieval Danishpriest describe the Ring Dance, and readersof Hans Andersen will recognise this priestlypuritanism in the tale of the Red...

Part of a series on the county folklore and festivals of the United Kingdom, this remarkable and well researched book on the festival customs and feast day practices, is all drawn from the voices of the people who took part in them. Many of the earliest...

This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree...

First published in 1926, book three of “The Scottish Country Dance Book” series contains a wonderful selection of traditional Scottish country dance music. Complete with detailed explanations, step-by-step instructions and clear sheet music, this volume...

This is the first book of “The Scottish Country Dance Book”, a fantastic series that presents a wide range of traditional Scottish country dance music. Complete with detailed explanations, step-by-step instructions and clear sheet music, this volume is...

This is book five of “The Scottish Country Dance Book” series. Containing a selection of traditional Scottish country dance music complete with detailed explanations, step-by-step dance instructions and clear sheet music, this volume is ideal for those...

This is book five of “The Scottish Country Dance Book” series. Containing a selection of traditional Scottish country dance music complete with detailed explanations, step-by-step dance instructions and clear sheet music, this volume is ideal for those...

The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small...

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...

African dance has been absent in school systems worldwide for many years. The presence of cultural dances has rarely made a mark in educational institutions. The most common forms of dance studied at the university level for credit are ballet, modern,...

In this beautifully illustrated book, Nataraja Ramakrishna explores the art and aesthetics of Andrula Natyam, a folk dance form from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Combining personal anecdotes with historical and technical analysis, Ramakrishna...

Moshe Itzhak-Halevy (Moshiko), born in 1932, is one of Israel's most talented and versatile folk dance choreographers."Dancing Against The Flow" is Moshiko's personal and professional story, written by his own hand; the life story of a man whose early...

Based on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among London's fashionable society, dancing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was variously a means of social modelling, change, conformity and...