Balkan fascination [electronic resource] : creating an alternative music culture in America / Mirjana Laušević.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American musicspheresPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: x, 299 p. : ill., musicSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 781.62/918073 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3560.B28 L38 2007eb
Online resources:
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.
Key to selections on DVD: p. 297-298; Key to selections on CD: p. 299.
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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, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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