Balkan fascination [electronic resource] : creating an alternative music culture in America / Mirjana Lau�sevi�c.
By: Lau�sevi�c, Mirjana.
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BookSeries: American musicspheres: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: x, 299 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm. +.Subject(s): Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism | Folk music -- Balkan Peninsula -- History and criticism | Music -- United States -- Balkan influencesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 781.62/918073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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