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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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 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.

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.

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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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