Communities in Motion: Dance, Community, and Tradition in America's Southeast and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Spalding, Susan E.; Woodside, Jane H.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313294283 ISBN 13 : 9780313294280

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1995

Synopsis

For the first time, a book on vernacular dance provides detailed case studies about a range of forms: old-time square dancing in Virginia, Indiana, and Newfoundland; African-American step shows; clogging; Cherokee traditional dance; historical reconstructions of 18th-century dance; and modern contra. This book fills a need from graduate studies to high schools, which are mandated under the Educate America Act to teach dance in historical and cultural perspective. Those interested in folklore, anthropology, dance history, ethnology, aesthetics, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, and more, will benefit from this work as they learn how vernacular dance reflects and shapes communities.

The work is divided into four sections. Each section is prefaced with an introductory essay that sets the essays and interviews into a theoretical context. Continuity and Change deals primarily with dance forms that have developed organically within a community. Conserving Tradition considers the conscious efforts of people from a particular culture to maintain a vernacular dance tradition in the face of change. Inventing Tradition examines revival dance and historical dance reconstructions. Finally, Practical Suggestions for the Documentation of Traditional Dance will benefit readers who want to try their hands at research and documentation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

SUSAN EIKE SPALDING is coordinator of the Dance Initiative for the Minnesota Center for Arts Education. She holds her Doctorate in Dance from Temple University, is a certified movement analyst, and is president of the Congress on Research in Dance. Her video documentary, Step Back Cindy: Old Time Dancing in Southwest Virginia, appeared on public television in 1991. Recent research explores interethnic interaction in the development of aesthetics of Appalachian traditional dance.

JANE HARRIS WOODSIDE is assistant director of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. She coordinated Center-sponsored conferences, workshops, and public programs on vernacular dance from 1989 to 1992. She has conducted research and lectured on traditional dance among the Eastern Band of the Cherokee in North Carolina.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313294283
• ISBN 13: 9780313294280
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible