The Grass Dancer
The Grass Dancer

Author: Susan Power

Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

Published: 1995-06

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 9781568952154

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Set in a Sioux Indian reservation, The Grass Dancer weaves back and forth through time from the 1860's to the 1980's, with the unrequited love of Ghost Horse and the beautiful warrior woman Red Dress shaping the fates of their descendants.

Heartbeat of the People
Heartbeat of the People

Author: Tara Browner

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0252054180

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The intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Heartbeat of the People is an insider's journey into the dances and music, the traditions and regalia, and the functions and significance of these vital cultural events. Tara Browner focuses on the Northern pow-wow of the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes to investigate the underlying tribal and regional frameworks that reinforce personal tribal affiliations. Interviews with dancers and her own participation in pow-wow events and community provide fascinating on-the-ground accounts and provide detail to a rare ethnomusicological analysis of Northern music and dance.

Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics

Author: Phil Jamison

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0252097327

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In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances, Jamison argues, are not the unaltered jigs and reels brought by early British settlers, but hybrids that developed over time by adopting and incorporating elements from other popular forms. He traces the forms from their European, African American, and Native American roots to the modern day. On the way he explores the powerful influence of black culture, showing how practices such as calling dances as well as specific kinds of steps combined with white European forms to create distinctly "American" dances. From cakewalks to clogging, and from the Shoo-fly Swing to the Virginia Reel, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics reinterprets an essential aspect of Appalachian culture.

Giraffes Can't Dance
Giraffes Can't Dance

Author: Giles Andreae

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1408345374

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Number One bestseller Giraffes Can't Dance from author Giles Andreae has been delighting children for over 20 years. Gerald the tall giraffe would love to join in with the other animals at the Jungle Dance, but everyone knows that giraffes can't dance . . . or can they? A funny, touching and triumphant picture book story about a giraffe who finds his own tune and confidence too, with joyful illustrations from Guy Parker Rees and a foiled cover. ... wonderfully funny. - Independent A fantastically funny and wonderfully colourful romp of a picture book. All toddlers should grow up reading this or hearing their parents read it aloud to them. - Daily Telegraph A joyful read about an outsider who finds acceptance on his own terms.... there's also a simple moral about tolerance and daring to be different. - Junior

A Dancing People
A Dancing People

Author: Clyde Ellis

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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This volume is a comprehensive history of of Southern Plains powwow culture - an interdisciplinary, highly collaborative ethnography based on more than two decades of participiation in powwows - addressing how the powwow has changed over time.