(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108493819)
Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood. For the first time in English, in a single volume, and in a style that will be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike, leading experts survey a rich legacy of classical mu...Loe edasi...
At the beginning of the 20th century Morris dancing had all but died out in much of England. It was militant suffragettes and slum girls who kick-started the revival that returned the forgotten dances of the countryside to towns and villages across t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190496043)
Rhythm Nation offers a new way of thinking about how dance shapes identities. It does so through the lens of West African dance, showing readers not only how and why the movement practice impacts participants lives in meaningful ways but al...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197526224)
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary analytical approaches to critical Indian dance studies from across the world. It explores new frontiers of scholarship suggested by...Loe edasi...
This is the first book in English exploring the quadrille as danced among the Skolt Saami, one of the indigenous Saami peoples in Northern Europe.The Skolt quadrille - the focus of this book - offers a fascinating case of transnational mov...Loe edasi...
The first book in English exploring the quadrille as danced among the Skolt Saami, one of the indigenous Saami peoples in Northern Europe. This is the first book in English exploring the quadrille as danced among the Skolt Saami, one of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197653050)
Writing in 1829, a Russian critic referred to the art of ballet as an impossible project--impossible because it strives to give an expressive language to body movements, while completely avoiding spoken dialogue. This impossibility generated an a...Loe edasi...
Funny Moves explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes of that intersection. Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, ten authors discuss instances of dance humor from t...Loe edasi...
In the mid-2000s, Russias government began to merge autonomous regions (okrugs), including the two regions held by its largest indigenous population, the Mongolic-speaking Buryats, into its Siberian administrative territories. As state institutio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253071187)
In the mid-2000s, the Russian government began to merge Siberias smallest Indigenous territories into larger administrative regions. Among Buryat Mongols living to the west of Lake Baikal the state promoted a policy of National Cultural Autonomy...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197765760)
Funny Moves explores the politics of dance humor in ten case studies found on stages, screens and streets of Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States. Moves found funny are the Other to dance because funniness emerges...Loe edasi...
Unmaking Contact interrogates “contact”, understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies...Loe edasi...
