Search results for “[subject: dance-folk]”

• Author(s): John Bealle • Publisher: Quarry Books • Publisher Imprint: Quarry Books • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Folk & TraditionalIn the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the pu...

• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Throughout its history, the United States has become a new home for thousands of immigrants, all of whom have brough...

• Author(s): Barbara S. Glass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinatin...

• Author(s): Andriy Nahachewsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Ukrainian dance is remarkably enduring in its popularity and still performed in numerous cultural contexts. Th...

• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk This collection of essays examines popular forms of dance in the Balkan nations, including detailed studies on the h...

• Author(s): Caitlin E. McDonald | Barbara Sellers-Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the...

• Author(s): Carlos G. Groppa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But t...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): K. Meira Goldberg | Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum | Michelle Heffner Hayes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk The language of the body is central to the study of flame...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Mark Knowles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Tap Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was firs...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is the second in a series of books focusing upon the history of folk music. This volume concentrates on the period ...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an ...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Carla Stalling Huntington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Modern Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social hi...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Lawrence J. Epstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional Many American folk singers have tried to leave their world a better place by ...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Luce Irigaray | Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Gender StudiesA collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, t...

• Author(s): Jennifer Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - TheoryReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlighten...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Tim Rayborn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its tra...

• Author(s): Robert Barnett | Cynthia Crain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet Dancer Robert Barnett trained under legendary choreographer Bronislava Nijinska...

• Author(s): Richard L. T. Orth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology For almost three centuries, the "Pennsylvania Dutch"--descended from German immigrants--have pract...

• Author(s): James Arena • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who daz...

• Author(s): Julie A. Brodie | Elin E. Lobel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Training in somatic techniques--holistic body-centered movement that promotes awareness and we...

• Author(s): James Arena • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Dance Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, ...

• Author(s): James Arena • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalThe 1990s produced some of the greatest artists and hits in dance music history. And the de...

• Author(s): Joel Fineman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJoel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called making st...