Balkan fascination creating an alternative music culture in America

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laušević, Mirjana (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 2007.
Series:American musicspheres.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Ethnography of the Balkan Music and Dance Scene ; The "Balkanites" ; Why Balkan?
  • Part II: Folk dancing and turn-of-the-century America ; Folk dancing and the settlement movement ; Folk dancing and the physical education and recreation movements
  • Part III: International folk dancing from the 1930s and 1950s ; Dance and be merry ; Emergence of the new folk dance leaders: Vytautas Beliajus, Song Chang, Michael Herman ; Folk dance as a national trend
  • Part IV: 1950s and beyond ; International folk dance and the "Balkan craze" ; The rise of the Balkan scene
  • conclusion.
  • Key to selections on DVD: p. 297-298; Key to selections on CD: p. 299.