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Lau�sevi�c, Mirjana.

Balkan fascination creating an alternative music culture in America / [electronic resource] : Mirjana Lau�sevi�c. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - x, 299 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm. + - American musicspheres . - American musicspheres. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.





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Folk music--History and criticism.--United States
Folk music--History and criticism.--Balkan Peninsula
Music--Balkan influences.--United States


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