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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in... Lees meer.

Can a song change a nation. In 1964 Marvin Gaye record producer William Mickey Stevenson and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote Dancing in the Street. The song was recorded at Motown s Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas with lead singer Martha... Lees meer.

America in the early 1940s is breaking free from the stranglehold of the Great Depression but a world wide war is looming on the horizon. In the rural community of Dancing Deer people are worried but David Calhoun has his own problems. He hates the banker. His whole fa... Lees meer.

The history of American dance reflects the nation s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned imitated and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bill Bojangles Robi... Lees meer.

Esquemeling served the Buccaneers as a barber-surgeon and was present for all their exploits. Little did he suspect that his first hand observations would some day be cherished as the only authentic and true history of the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main.... Lees meer.

Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York s Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants particularly Jewish... Lees meer.

Dancing With The Dog is a collection of behind the scenes travel incidents in six Latin American nations over a period of two years. It is a reflection on the confluence of the modern medieval and pre-historic as they express themselves in the present moment... Lees meer.

A lovely collection of games based on movement for use with young children. Children love these games for the pure joy of movement. In their dancing rhythms adults also will find that the active involvement of the hands with the tongue revives the whole human bei... Lees meer.

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This is really one story in three parts. First we have the high school philosophy teacher who has to resign his position much as Aristotle had to when the authorities came looking for him. Part two is of an indigent Irish family who emigrate from the Emerald Isle to the... Lees meer.

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This book explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites social status transition rites and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s the essays present descripti... Lees meer.

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In America s Daughter the second book of the trilogy the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu... Lees meer.

Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger... Lees meer.