Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index. Includes keys to selections on CD/DVD.
Contents:
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.The 1950s and beyond. International folk dance and the "Balkan craze" ; The rise of the Balkan scene.
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