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Balkan dance : essays on characteristics, performance and teaching
- Title
- Balkan dance : essays on characteristics, performance and teaching / [edited by] Anthony Shay.
- Publication
- Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 281 p. : ill., music; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This collection of essays examines popular forms of dance in the Balkan nations. The essays address the ways in which ethnic and national identity constitutes an important aspect of the performance of Balkan dance. Several essays examine the popularity that Balkan dances and music have found among American audiences"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Richard George "Dick" Crum : a life / Robert Henry Leibman -- Introduction : choreographing the Balkans / Anthony Shay -- Transnational čoček : gender and the politics of Balkan Romani dance / Carol Silverman -- Dance and place : the case of a Roma community in northern Greece / Christos Papakostas -- Dance as propaganda : the Metaxas regime's stadium ceremonies, 1937-1940 / Irene Loutzaki -- Nationalism and scholarship in Transylvanian ethnochoreology / Colin Quigley -- Bulgarian dance culture : from censorship to chalga / Erica Nielsen -- Clapping for Serbs : nationalism and performance in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Lynn D. Maners -- Choreographing the other : the Serbian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Gypsies, Muslims, and Albanians / Anthony Shay -- "Inside, outside, upside-down" : the role of mainstream society participants in the ethnic dance movement / Robin J. Evanchuk -- Balkan tradition, American alternative : dance, community, and the people of the pines / June Adler Vail -- Hai la joc! periodicity at play in Romanian dance music / Jamie L. Webster -- Dvoransko kolo : from the 1840s to the twentieth century / Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter -- Dance structure and its application to the understanding of Macedonian "cross" dances / Robert Henry Leibman.
- Call Number
- *MGS (Balkan) 08-2025
- ISBN
- 9780786432288 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786432284 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007048717
- OCLC
- 153579084
- Title
- Balkan dance : essays on characteristics, performance and teaching / [edited by] Anthony Shay.
- Imprint
- Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Shay, Anthony, 1936-Crum, Dick.
- Research Call Number
- *MGS (Balkan) 08-2025