A lovely collection of games based on movement for use with young children.... Lees meer.

In Los Angeles night after night the city s salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender race and class and of nationality citizenship and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives Cindy G... 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influences on Wagner the revolutionary who turned the world of opera upside down. Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influenc... Lees meer.

Here is the vibrant colorful high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive fully documented history of a uniquely American art form exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the... Lees meer.

Where did big bands and swing music go. They didn t leave. . . but many Americans actually believe they disappeared along with ballrooms jukeboxes bobby sox and zoot suits decades ago. Band leader Brooks Tegler who has recreated the great music of World War II with... 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.

Traces the meteoric popularity of the iconic song by Marvin Gaye Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter against a backdrop of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 exploring the political and cultural events that shaped period music and how the song s multiple meanings r... Lees meer.

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 Nhamb... Lees meer.