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Author: Ralph G. Giordano
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780313334030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the history of social dancing in the United States from the complicated early set dances to modern breakdancing and the recent revival of swing, discussing how, why, and with whom Americans have danced.
Author: Ralph G. Giordano
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the history of social dancing in the United States from the complicated early set dances to modern breakdancing and the recent revival of swing, discussing how, why, and with whom Americans have danced.
Author: Ralph G. Giordano
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 808
ISBN-13: 9780313337567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the history of social dancing in the United States from the complicated early set dances to modern breakdancing and the recent revival of swing, discussing how, why, and with whom Americans have danced.
Author: Benjamin Dangl
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2010-11-09
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1849350469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and "the streets" remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere.
Author: Kristin Luker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0674040384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science.
Author: Cindy García
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013-06-18
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0822378299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy García describes how local salseras/os gain social status by performing an exoticized L.A.–style salsa that distances them from club practices associated with Mexicanness. Many Latinos in Los Angeles try to avoid "dancing like a Mexican," attempting to rid their dancing of techniques that might suggest that they are migrants, poor, working-class, Mexican, or undocumented. In L.A. salsa clubs, social belonging and mobility depend on subtleties of technique and movement. With a well-timed dance-floor exit or the lift of a properly tweezed eyebrow, a dancer signals affiliation not only with a distinctive salsa style but also with a particular conceptualization of latinidad.
Author: Maureen Needham
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780252069994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresenting dancers, scholars, admirers, and critics, I See America Dancing is a diverse collection of primary documents and articles about the place and shape of dance in the United States from colonial times to the present. This volume offers a lively counterpoint between observers of the dance and dancers' views of what they do when they dance. Dance traditions represented include the Native American pow-wow; tribal music and dance activities on Sunday afternoons in New Orlean's Congo Square; the colonial Playford Balls and their modern offspring, country line dancing; and the Buddhist-inspired Japanese Bon dances in Hawaii. Anti-dance perspectives include government injunctions against Native American dancing and essays from a range of speakers who have declared the waltz, the twist, or the senior prom to be a careless quick-step away from hell or the brothel. I See America Dancing examines the styles that have marked theatrical dance in America, from French ballet to minstrel shows, and presents the views of influential dancers, choreographers, and the pioneers of early modern dance in America. Specific pieces examined include George Ballanchine's ballet Stars and Stripes, Yvonne Rainer's protest piece "Flag Dance, 1970," and Sonjé Mayo's "Naked in America." Covering historical social attitudes toward the dance as well as the performers and their works, I See America Dancing is a comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook that captures the energy and passion of this vital artform.
Author: Linda J. Tomko
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780253213273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies. . . . the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among different classes." —Choice From salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the century became a vehicle for expressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining master narratives of modern dance history, this provocative and insightful book demonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices.
Author: Alex Moore
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0878301534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Katrina Hazzard-Gordon
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-07-02
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 143990622X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first analysis of the development of the jook and other dance arenas in African-American culture.
