Dances of the Young Republic
Dances of the Young Republic

Author: Ann Krauss

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1991-02

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780739015346

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This collection contains duets, trios and quartets that were written by the American composers Alexander Reinagle and Francis Johnson, as well as some works that remain anonymous. Arranged by Anne McClenny Krauss and Maurice Hinson, these dances and marches were some of the most popular from the period following the Revolutionary War. Duets and trios are to be played on one piano and quartets on two. Dynamics and articulation have been added to clarify the musical ideas.

Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States
Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States

Author: Laura Lohman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-17

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1000388956

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This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society. Supporting growing interest among scholars and performers spanning numerous disciplines, this book contributes quality new scholarship to spur further research on this overshadowed period of American music and dance. Organized in three parts, the chapters offer methodological and interpretative guidance and model varied approaches to contemporary scholarship. The first part introduces important bibliographic tools and models their use in focused examinations of individual objects of material musical culture. The second part illustrates methods of situating dance and its music in early American society as relevant to scholars working in multiple disciplines. The third part examines contemporary performance of early American music and dance from three distinct perspectives ranging from ethnomusicological fieldwork and phenomenology to the theatrical stage. Dedicated to scholar Kate Van Winkle Keller, this volume builds on her legacy of foundational contributions to the study of early American secular music, dance, and society. It provides an essential resource for all those researching and performing music and dance from the revolutionary era through the early nineteenth century.

Dancing with Colonels
Dancing with Colonels

Author: Marjorie Havreberg

Publisher: SDSHS Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0984504133

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Struck with the desire to see and do more with her life, a young South Dakota woman left the family home in Redfield to go to work for Senator Peter Norbeck in Washington, D.C. When the position ended, she quickly found she had grown accustomed to the bright lights of the capital and soon joined the War Department as a civilian secretary. With World War II in full swing, she found herself traversing the globe en route to Ankara, Turkey.

Shanghai's Dancing World
Shanghai's Dancing World

Author: Andrew Field

Publisher: Chinese University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9629963736

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"It was thanks to its cabarets that Old Shanghai was called the `Paris of the Orient.' No one has studied the rise and fall of those cabarets more extensively than Andrew Field. His book is packed with fascinating information and attests on every page to his understanding of Shanghai's history." LYNN PAN, author of Sons of the Yellow Emperor --

The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890

Author: James Mooney

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780803281776

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Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and traced the progress of the Ghost Dance from place to place, describing the ritual and recording the distinctive song lyrics of seven separate tribes. His classic work (first published in 1896 and here reprinted in its entirety for the first time) includes succinct cultural and historical introductions to each of those tribal groups and depicts the Ghost Dance among the Sioux, the fears it raised of an Indian outbreak, and the military occupation of the Sioux reservations culminating in the tragedy at Wounded Knee. Seeking to demonstrate that the Ghost Dance was a legitimate religious movement, Mooney prefaced his study with a historical survey of comparable millenarian movements among other American Indian groups. In addition to his work on the Ghost Dance, James Mooney is best remembered for his extraordinarily detailed studies of the Cherokee Indians of the Southeast and the Kiowa and other tribes of the southern plains, and for his advocacy of American Indian religious freedom.

Dance and Politics
Dance and Politics

Author: Alexandra Kolb

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9783039118489

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This is the first anthology to explore the fertile intersection of dance and political studies. It offers new perspectives on the connections of dance to governmental, state and party politics, war, nationalism, activism, terrorism, human rights, political ideologies and cultural policy. This cutting-edge book features previously unpublished work by leading scholars of dance, theatre, politics, and management, alongside renowned contemporary choreographers, who propose innovative ways of looking at twentieth- and twenty-first-century dance. Topics covered range across the political spectrum: from dance tendencies under fascism to the use of choreography for revolutionary socialist ends; from the capacity of dance to reflect the modern market economy to its function in campaigns for peace and justice. The book also contains a comprehensive introduction to the relations between dance and politics.