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Balkan fascination : creating an alternative music culture in America /
In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no family or ethnic connection. Going beyond traditional interpretations, she challenges the notion tha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | American musicspheres.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.