Grassroots social movements played a major role in electing new left-leaning governments throughout Latin America but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy. In Dancing with Dynamite Benjamin Dangl explores the complex ways these movemen... Lees meer.
A collection of stories for young children which journey through the seasons of the year in movement and gestures. This is a joyful collection of stories for circle time with young children. The stories weave through the seasons of the year with each one offering o... Lees meer.
Here is the vibrant colorful high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative filling a major gap in A... Lees meer.
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.
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.
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 Robins... 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.
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.
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.
This two volume set relates the history of the most popular social dances where they began which dances survived the test of time and why and what attracted American men and women to social dancing in these periods. Unlike other books on social dancing that taught pe... Lees meer.
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.