Balkan Dance : Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching
Balkan Dance : Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching
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Author(s): Shay, Anthony
ISBN No.: 9780786432288
Pages: 291
Year: 200712
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 55.13
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 1. Richard George "Dick" Crum: A Life ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN 5 2. Introduction: Choreographing the Balkans ANTHONY SHAY 12 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Performance 3. Transnational ToVek: Gender and the Politics of Balkan Romani Dance CAROL SILVERMAN 37 4. Dance and Place: The Case of a Roma Community in Northern Greece CHRISTOS PAPAKOSTAS 69 5. Dance as Propaganda: The Metaxas Regime's Stadium Ceremonies, 1937-1940 IRENE LOUTZAKI 89 6. Nationalism and Scholarship in Transylvanian Ethnochoreology COLIN QUIGLEY 116 7. Bulgarian Dance Culture: From Censorship to Chalga ERICA NIELSEN 130 8.


Clapping for Serbs: Nationalism and Performance in Bosnia and Herzegovina LYNN D. MANERS 145 9. Choreographing the Other: The Serbian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Gypsies, Muslims, and Albanians ANTHONY SHAY 161 Balkan Dance in America 10. "Inside, Outside, Upside-Down": The Role of Mainstream Society Participants in the Ethnic Dance Movement ROBIN J. EVANCHUK 179 11. Balkan Tradition, American Alternative: Dance, Community, and the People of the Pines JUNE ADLER VAIL 195 Morphology of Balkan Dance and Music 12. Hai la Joc! Periodicity at Play in Romanian Dance Music JAMIE L. WEBSTER 213 13.


Dvoransko Kolo: From the 1840s to the Twentieth Century NANCY LEE CHALFA RUYTER 239 14. Dance Structure and Its Application to the Understanding of Macedonian "Cross" Dances ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN 250 About the Contributors 271 Index 275.


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