Teaching Folk Dance

Teaching Folk Dance
Author: Phyllis S. Weikart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Folk dancing
ISBN: 9781573790086

Contains complete descriptions of over 215 beginning and intermediate folk dances organized by level of difficulty.

International Folk Dancing U.S.A.

International Folk Dancing U.S.A.
Author: Betty Casey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781574411188

This is an extensive work on international folk dancing as practiced in the United States. It tells how to do the hopak, czardas and the bamboo pole dance; plan an international folk dance program; do the little finger hold and the hambo swing. International Folk Dancing U.S.A. presents historical vignettes on pioneer folk dance leaders; instructions for 180 dances from 30 countries; contributions from 60 folk dance authorities; easy-to-follow dance step descriptions; a Glossary of folk dance terms; many helpful illustrations.

First Harp Book

First Harp Book
Author: B. Paret
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1987-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780793555239

Harp

Folk Dancing

Folk Dancing
Author: Erica M. Nielsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2011-07-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0313376891

This overview of folk dancing in the United States showcases an important historical movement and explains how folk dance communities evolved to fulfill the needs of specific groups of people over time. While the general term "folk dance" encompasses a surprising variety of specific dances, there are three major recreational communities or forms: international folk dance, modern western square dance, and contra dance. Throughout the last century, millions of people have enjoyed folk dancing as an educational and recreational activity, regardless of the particular style. Folk Dancing explains the reasons for the folk dance movement that exploded in Europe and North America in the late 19th century. It describes the clubs, camps, festivals, and communities that sprang up, and examines the culture of the movement—the music, key individuals and events, types of clothing, and influences of technologies and popular culture. The book contains authoritative, original information gleaned from the author's own research conducted with hundreds of folk dance enthusiasts across America.

Movement of the People

Movement of the People
Author: Mary N. Taylor
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253057825

Since 1990, thousands of Hungarians have vacationed at summer camps devoted to Hungarian folk dance in the Transylvanian villages of neighboring Romania. This folk tourism and connected everyday practices of folk dance revival take place against the backdrop of an increasingly nationalist political environment in Hungary. In Movement of the People, Mary N. Taylor takes readers inside the folk revival movement known as dancehouse (táncház) that sustains myriad events where folk dance is central and championed by international enthusiasts and UNESCO. Contextualizing táncház in a deeper history of populism and nationalism, Taylor examines the movement's emergence in 1970s socialist institutions, its transformation through the postsocialist period, and its recent recognition by UNESCO as a best practice of heritage preservation. Approaching the populist and popular practices of folk revival as a form of national cultivation, Movement of the People interrogates the everyday practices, relationships, institutional contexts, and ideologies that contribute to the making of Hungary's future, as well as its past.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1688
Release: 2009
Genre: Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN:

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1692
Release: 1991
Genre: Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN:

A Handbook of Philippine Folklore

A Handbook of Philippine Folklore
Author: Mellie Leandicho Lopez
Publisher: UP Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2006
Genre: Folk literature, Philippine
ISBN: 9789715425148

The voluminous book provides a range of international theories and methodologies in analytical folklore investigations, and a classification scheme based on genre is offered as the system of taxonomy for Philippine traditional materials. Lopez counts on the regional folklorists to refine the classification according to the texts of their respective areas. The different genres, too, are explained and examined in another part of Lopez's study. The reader will definitely find interesting and useful, the illustrative examples for each genre.