Balkan fascination creating an alternative music culture in America / Mirjana Laušević.

Author/creator Laušević, Mirjana
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionx, 299 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm. + 1 DualDisc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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Subjects

SeriesAmerican musicspheres
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.
Contents Key to selections on DVD: p. 297-298; Key to selections on CD: p. 299.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005014887
ISBN019517867X (alk. paper)
ISBN9780195178678 (alk. paper)

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