Balkan fascination : creating an alternative music culture in America / / Mirjana Lausevic.
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| Superior document: | American musicspheres |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American musicspheres.
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| Physical Description: | x, 299 p. :; ill., music. |
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Table of 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.
- Key to selections on DVD: p. 297-298; Key to selections on CD: p. 299.