Balkan fascination : creating an alternative music culture in America / Mirjana Laušević
- Author:
- Laušević, Mirjana
- Published:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description:
- x, 299 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm + 1 DVD/audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Series:
- Contents:
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 019517867X
9780195178678 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index.
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