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Folk Dance Collections and Folk Dance Research in Denmark and the Faeroe Islands

Yearbook for Traditional Music, 1993
The aim of this article is to present a survey of the development and present stage of dance studies in Denmark. The presentation focuses on research and publications of scholarly work and on collections concerning folk and social dance. Thus, otherwise important studies on historical dance, dance reconstruction, Bournonville tradition and dance in ...
Lisbet Torp, Anca Giurchescu
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Dance and Dance Music of the 16th Century and Their Relations to Folk Dance and Folk Music

Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1965
dance and dance music of the higher cultural strata and that of the basic strata, with special reference to the dance of the sixteenth century, I am doing this, first, because we can see that neither before nor after that century is the interest of the higher strata in the dance and dance music of the lower strata in any way comparable or widespread ...
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Folk Dancing

2011
This overview of folk dancing in the United States showcases an important historical movement and explains how folk dance communities evolved to fulfill the needs of specific groups of people over time. While the general term “folk dance” encompasses a surprising variety of specific dances, there are three major recreational communities or forms ...
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Marimba: Dance of the Revolutionaries, Dance of the Folk

Radical History Review, 2002
In the wake of the 1979 Sandinista revolution, Nicaragua experienced an artistic explosion. The Sandinista government, dedicated to dismantling the country’s rigid class system that had reserved the rights to artistic recognition for a privileged few, celebrated and cultivated the creative potential of ordinary people.
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Oriental Elements in the Folk Dance and Folk Dance Music of Greek Macedonia

Journal of the International Folk Music Council, 1967
Before speaking of “oriental elements,” I must first of all make two qualifying statements in order not to be misunderstood. First, the musicologist, when hearing the expression “oriental music,” thinks of the art music of the Near East; but here I am speaking especially of folk music coming from the East to Greece.
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Folk dances of India

Dance Chronicle, 1978
Traditions of Indian Folk Dance. By Kapila Vatsyayan. Illustrated, 274 pp. New Delhi: Indian Book Company, 1976. Rupees 60.
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The Politics of Folk Dance

Dance Chronicle, 2003
Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power By Anthony Shay. xx +274 pp. Illustrated. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
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Costuming the Folk Dance

Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, 1950
(1950). Costuming the Folk Dance. Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 72-117.
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Folk dance

2000
Text is a popularly written overview of croational traditional dance culture including main dance style characteristics according to the regional differences.
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Philippine Folk Dances

Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, 1952
(1952). Philippine Folk Dances. Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation: Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 10-11.
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