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City Folk (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis)

This can be the tale of English nation Dance, from its 18th century roots within the English towns and nation-state, to its transatlantic jump to the U. S. within the twentieth century, informed by way of not just a popular historian but in addition a folks dancer, who has either immersed himself within the wealthy historical past of the folks culture and rehearsed its steps.

Dance and Other Expressive Art Therapies: When Words Are Not Enough

First released in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming

Inside highbrow paradigms that privilege brain over subject, dance has lengthy seemed as a marginal, spinoff, or primitive artwork. Drawing help from theorists and artists who include topic as dynamic and agential, this publication bargains a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive paintings within the ongoing evolution of human folks.

The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance

Whereas there are books approximately people dances from person nations or areas, there isn’t a unmarried finished booklet on folks dances around the globe. This illustrated compendium deals the scholar, instructor, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and normal reader an outline of the evolution and social and spiritual importance of people dance.