(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...
(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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197627761)
Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch interrogates contact, understood by Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight- sharing...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197566237)
This book offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music and dance of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce and use these cultural expressions. Each chapters central argument ties into a participatory exercise that provide...Loe edasi...
This book offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music and dance of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce and use these cultural expressions. Each chapters central argument ties into a participatory exercise that provide...Loe edasi...
Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolutions Aftermath investigates local, intra-Middle Eastern, and global circulations of belly dance centered within Cairo, Egypt, in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jan. 25th, 2011 revolution. This mult...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197613627)
Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolutions Aftermath explores the intricate networks of belly dance in Cairo, Egypt following the turbulent aftermath of the January 25, 2011 revolution. This comprehensive ethnography takes reade...Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek womens dance – Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara – and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore rootsto contemporary stage dance.The...Loe edasi...
This book commences with the history of Indian, Egyptian, Arab, and flamenco dance, then compares and contrasts the history of both classical ballet and flamenco. The book outlines the early roots of flamenco in India, and the journey of th...Loe edasi...
The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularisation of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia. The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Nov-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252087455)
An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the musics history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamencos Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Nov-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252045332)
An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the musics history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamencos Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Oct-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Big Picture Press, ISBN-13: 9781800783362)
Brilliantly curated and beautifully illustrated, the Welcome to the Arts series offers all-hours admission to some of the worlds most wondrous performances. From Swan Lake to Riverdance, flamenco to tap, Dance features some of the most i...Loe edasi...
This lavishly illustrated book covers all of the exquisite forms of traditional performing arts in Bali&;from gamelan music to ritual dance, dramas and puppetry.Ideal reading for visitors to the island, as well as anyone interested...Loe edasi...
2008 US-Battle of the Year, Hollywood, CA This is my second time at US-Battle of the Year, held at the same club in Hollywood, and full of breakers I admire. ( See Pic 1.1) When I arrive, the mood is casual. Some stretch in corners, and others conver...Loe edasi...
This book is about the folk: the folk in folk dance, the folk in folklore, the folk in folk wisdom. When we see folk dance on the stage or in a tourist setting, which is the way in which many of us experience folk dance, the question arises are th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190856694)
The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those foundations—evident in expressive qualities like call...Loe edasi...
Butô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the worlds leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Bu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197630273)
Butô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the worlds leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Bu...Loe edasi...
Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices....Loe edasi...
Nikoli A. Attai, Nikoli A. Attai, Sue Ann Barratt, Judy Grant, Rosamond S King, Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Angelique V Nixon, Kai Barratt, Ryan Persadie, Sue Ann Barratt...
Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the C...Loe edasi...
Nikoli A. Attai, Nikoli A. Attai, Sue Ann Barratt, Judy Grant, Rosamond S King, Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Angelique V Nixon, Kai Barratt, Ryan Persadie, Sue Ann Barratt...
Sari: Critical Caribbean Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978846616)
Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the C...Loe edasi...
(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...
