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E-book Waltzing Through Europe : Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century

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Round dances are a group of dances that rose to fame with the Waltzaround 1800 and stayed in fashion until the end of the nineteenth century. Although they had lost their fashionable status by the twentieth century, some of these dances remained popular in many countries alongside the new African-American1 dances such as the Tango and Foxtrotthroughout the twentieth century. The round dance group includes dances such as the Waltz, the Polka, the Mazurka, and the Schottische, many of which are recorded in the manuals of dancing masters, but there are also forms that developed and spread independently from the masters.2 Much of the material about these dances is available to us through their continued practice, as well as in documentation, such as films, mainly from the twentieth century. This can augment historical sources. We contend that the round dance group has a profile that allows us to delimit and study it as a relatively cohesive phenomenon in terms of structure and form. The way it is situated historically and geographically also contributes to its cohesiveness. This does not mean that the term ‘round dance’ exists wherever these dances are performed; nor are they always understood as a group. The aim of this section is to describe and discuss this contended cohesiveness and to enable the reader to understand the various dance practices whose reception is scrutinised in this book. The authors are all European and write about European countries, and, for the sake of making the task manageable, the book is restricted to Europe. There is a vast amount of material about round dance forms outside Europe, as well as non-European descriptions of and reactions to them. They spread very rapidly to the Americas and Australia but also to other parts of the world that had large diasporas or populations of European descent. However, this discussion lies outside the scope of the present volume.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

784.1 BAK w

Penerbit

: Open Book Publishers., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

497 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781783747344

Klasifikasi

784.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

General Principles of Instrumental Music

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