Dance And The Formation Of Norden

Author : Karen Vedel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Folk dancing
ISBN : 8251926483

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Dance and the Formation of Norden by Karen Vedel Pdf

What is the role of dance in the formation of the geopolitical region known as the Nordic Countries or Norden? In this book a group of dance scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden shed light on the topic by juxtaposing material relating to theatrical, folkloric and social dancing in the 20th and 21st centuries. Contextualised in the wider cultural and political making of the region, the chapters relate dance to questions of emerging nations, canon building, local variations of global trends and democratic practices in the arts. The book is intended for an international readership with an interest in dance in all its manifestations.

Author : Petri Hoppu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317086802

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Nordic Dance Spaces by Petri Hoppu Pdf

Dance has been connected to the practices and ideologies that have shaped notions of a Nordic region for more than a century and it is ingrained into the culture and society of the region. This book investigates different dance phenomena that have either engaged with or dismantled notions of Nordicness. Looking to the motion of dancers and dance forms between different locations, organizations and networks of individuals, its authors discuss social dancing, as well as historical processes associated with collaborations in folk dance and theatre dance. They consider how similarities and differences between the Nordic countries may be discerned, for instance in patterns of reception at the arrival of dance forms from outside the Nordic countries - and vice versa, how dance from the Nordic countries is received in other parts of the world, as seen for example in the Nordic Cool Festival at the Kennedy Centre in 2013. The book opens a rare window into Nordic culture seen through the prism of dance. While it grants the reader new insights into the critical role of dance in the formation and imagining of a region, it also raises questions about the interplay between dance practices and politics.

Author : Susan C. Cook,Sherril Dodds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317173526

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Bodies of Sound by Susan C. Cook,Sherril Dodds Pdf

From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals the intimate connections between the corporeal and the sonic in the creation, transmission and reception of popular dance and music, which is imagined here as ’bodies of sound’. The volume provokes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation that includes scholarship from Asia, Europe and the United States, which explores topics from the nineteenth century through to the present day and engages with practices at local, national and transnational levels. In Part I: Constructing the Popular, the authors explore how categories of popular music and dance are constructed and de-stabilized, and their proclivity to appropriate and re-imagine cultural forms and meanings. In Part II: Authenticity, Revival and Reinvention, the authors examine how popular forms produce and manipulate identities and meanings through their attraction to and departure from cultural traditions. In Part III: (Re)Framing Value, the authors interrogate how values are inscribed, silenced, rearticulated and capitalized through popular music and dance. And in Part IV: Politics of the Popular, the authors read the popular as a site of political negotiation and transformation.

Author : Randi Margrete Selvik,Svein Gladsø,Annabella Skagen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000296570

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Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860 by Randi Margrete Selvik,Svein Gladsø,Annabella Skagen Pdf

Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860: Questioning Canons reveals how various cultural processes have influenced what has been included, and what has been marginalised from canons of European music, dance, and theatre around the turn of the nineteenth century and the following decades. This collection of essays includes discussion of the piano repertory for young ladies in England; canonisation of the French minuet; marginalisation of the popular German dramatist Kotzebue from the dramatic canon; dance repertory and social life in Christiania (Oslo); informal cultural activities in Trondheim; repertory of Norwegian musical clocks; female itinerant performers in the Nordic sphere; preconditions, dissemination, and popularity of equestrian drama; marginalisation and amateur staging of a Singspiel by the renowned Danish playwright Oehlenschläger, also with perspectives on the music and its composers; and the perceived relevance of Henrik Ibsen’s staged theatre repertory and early dramas. By questioning established notions about canon, marginalisation, and relevance within the performing arts in the period 1770–1860, this book asserts itself as an intriguing text both to the culturally interested public and to scholars and students of musicology, dance research, and theatre studies.

Author : Patricia H Ballantyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429784132

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Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 by Patricia H Ballantyne Pdf

Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 presents a history of Scottish music and dance over the last 200 years, with a focus on sources originating in Aberdeenshire, when steps could be adapted in any way the dancer pleased. The book explains the major changes in the way that dance was taught and performed by chronicling the shift from individual dancing masters to professional, licensed members of regulatory societies. This ethnographical study assesses how dances such as the Highland Fling have been altered and how standardisation has affected contemporary Highland dance and music, by examining the experience of dancers and pipers. It considers reactions to regulation and standardisation through the introduction to Scotland of percussive step dance and caller-facilitated ceilidh dancing. Today’s Highland dancing is a standardised and international form of dance. This book tells the story of what changed over the last 200 years and why. It unfolds through a series of colourful characters, through the dances they taught and the music they danced to and through the story of one dance in particular, the Highland Fling. It considers how Scottish dance reflected changes in Scottish society and culture. The book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduates in the fields of Dance History, Ethnomusicology, Ethnochoreology, Ethnology and Folklore, Cultural History, Scottish Studies and Scottish Traditional Music as well as to teachers, judges and practitioners of Highland dancing and to those interested in the history of Scottish dance, music and culture.

Author : Emma Warren
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571366057

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Dance Your Way Home by Emma Warren Pdf

This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . . . Why do we dance together? What does dancing tells us about ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for us? Whether it be at home, '80s club nights, Irish dancehalls or reggae dances, jungle raves or volunteer-run spaces and youth centres, Emma Warren has sought the answers to these questions her entire life. Dancing doesn't just refract the music and culture within which it evolves; it also generates new music and culture. When we speak only of the music, we lose part of the story - the part that finds us dancing as children on the toes of adults; the half that triggers communication across borders and languages; the part that finds us worried that we'll never be able to dance again, and the part that finds us wondering why we were ever nervous in the first place. At the intersection of memoir, social and cultural history, Dance Your Way Home is an intimate foray onto the dancefloor - wherever and whenever it may be - that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move.

Author : A. Carter,R. Fensham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230354487

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Dancing Naturally by A. Carter,R. Fensham Pdf

A renewed interest in nature, the ancient Greeks, and the freedom of the body was to transform dance and physical culture in the early twentieth century. The book discusses the creative individuals and developments in science and other art forms that shaped the evolution of modern dance in its international context.

Author : Martha Bremser,Lorna Sanders
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781136828324

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Fifty Contemporary Choreographers by Martha Bremser,Lorna Sanders Pdf

A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers. Representing a wide range of dance genres, each entry locates the individual in the context of modern dance theatre and explores their impact. Those studied include: Jerome Bel Richard Alston Doug Varone William Forsythe Phillippe Decoufle Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Ohad Naharin Itzik Gallili Twyla Tharp Wim Vandekeybus With a new, updated introduction by Deborah Jowitt and further reading and references throughout, this text is an invaluable resource for all students and critics of dance, and all those interested in the fascinating world of choreography.

Author : Wera Grahn,Ross J. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315460079

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Gender and Heritage by Wera Grahn,Ross J. Wilson Pdf

Gender and Heritage brings together a group of international scholars to examine the performance, place and politics of gender within heritage. Through a series of case studies, models and assessments, the significance of understanding and working with concepts of gender is demonstrated as a dynamic and reforming agenda. Demonstrating that gender has become an increasingly important area for heritage scholarship, the collection argues that it should also be recognised as a central structuring device within society and the location where a critical heritage studies can emerge. Drawing on contributions from around the world, this edited collection provides a range of innovative approaches to using gender as a mode of enquiry. From the politics of museum displays, the exploration of pedagogy, the role of local initiatives and the legal frameworks that structure representation, the volume’s diversity and objectives represent a challenge for students, academics and professionals to rethink gender. Rather than featuring gender as an addition to wider discussions of heritage, this volume makes gender the focus of concern as a means of building a new agenda within the field. This volume, which addresses how we engage with gender and heritage in both practice and theory, is essential reading for scholars at all levels and should also serve as a useful guide for practitioners.

Author : Hanna Järvinen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137407733

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Dancing Genius by Hanna Järvinen Pdf

Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000152205799

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Journal of Folklore Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anne Schley Duggan,Jeanette Schlottmann,Abbie Rutledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Folk dance music
ISBN : UOM:39015023747119

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The Folk Dance Library: Folk dances of Scandinavia by Anne Schley Duggan,Jeanette Schlottmann,Abbie Rutledge Pdf

Author : Mohd. Anis Md. Nor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dance
ISBN : UCR:31210024393975

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Dancing Mosaic by Mohd. Anis Md. Nor Pdf

Author : Egil Bakka,Theresa Jill Buckland,Helena Saarikoski ,Anne von Bibra Wharton
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783747351

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Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century by Egil Bakka,Theresa Jill Buckland,Helena Saarikoski ,Anne von Bibra Wharton Pdf

From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of often newly discovered primary sources, the essays afford many opportunities to compare sociocultural and political reactions to the arrival and practice of popular rotating couple dances, such as the Waltz and the Polka. Leading contributors provide a transnational and affective lens onto strikingly diverse topics, ranging from the evolution of romantic couple dances in Croatia, and Strauss’s visits to Hamburg and Altona in the 1830s, to dance as a tool of cultural preservation and expression in twentieth-century Finland. Waltzing Through Europe creates openings for fresh collaborations in dance historiography and cultural history across fields and genres. It is essential reading for researchers of dance in central and northern Europe, while also appealing to the general reader who wants to learn more about the vibrant histories of these familiar dance forms.

Author : John H. Ostrom
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781933789422

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Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin Area, Wyoming and Montana by John H. Ostrom Pdf

The fiftieth anniversary edition of a landmark publication showcasing prehistoric North American landscapes and ecosystems, from a celebrated paleontologist at Yale University's Peabody Museum The fiftieth anniversary edition of John H. Ostrom's Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Cloverly Formation revisits his groundbreaking work pinpointing the age of the continental sequence of the Bighorn Basin area in Wyoming and Montana. The Cloverly Formation is important for understanding the development of North American terrestrial landscapes and prehistoric ecosystems, and current investigations are reinterpreting the age of the Formation with new evidence and data. The reissue of Ostrom's original benchmark research offers contemporary relevance for researchers and students today.