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Books: Ethnic dance - Miscellaneous



Cover imageAncient Egyptian dances.

Author: Lexova, Milada

Published: 1935, 2000

Dancing was an important part of ancient Egyptian life. This, the only work on the subject currently available in... [full description]

Paperback [0861-PB] £ 8.95 Add to order


Cover imageThe anthropology of dance.

Author: Royce, Anya Peterson

Published: 2002

This pioneering book, first published in 1977 and here reprinted with a new introduction, is the first general... [full description]

Paperback [1335-PB] £ 15.00 Add to order


Cover imageThe art of belly dancing.

Author: Worick, Jennifer

Published: 2006

A small oval box containing a tiny 32 page booklet on the technique of belly dancing, a set of finger cymbals, and... [full description]

Paperback [5056-PB] £ 4.99 Add to order


Bacchanal! The carnival culture of Trinidad.

Author: Mason, Peter

Published: 1998

Exploration of the place of Carnival in Trinidadian society and the people who take part in it. Detailed survey drawing... [full description]

Paperback [2290-PB] £ 12.99 Add to order


Burmese dance and theatre.

Author: Singer, Noel F.

Published: 1995

The history of dance and theatre in Burma in the courts and countryside. Nearly 50 illustrations, some in colour.

Hardback [1385-HB] £ 9.99 Add to order


Cover imageChoreographic politics: state folk dance companies, representation and power.

Author: Shay, Anthony

Published: 2002

The first in-depth analysis of state-sponsored, professional dance ensembles. Over the past fifty years these national... [full description]

Paperback [1984-PB] £ 16.50 Add to order


Cover imageColors of enchantment: theater, dance, music, and the visual arts of the Middle East.

Author: Zuhur, Sherifa

Published: 2001

A series of essays from noteworthy scholars that explore the visual and performing arts of the Middle East. Topics... [full description]

Paperback [2407-PB] £ 17.95 Add to order


Cover imageCuarteto, music and dancing from Argentina - in search of the Tunga-Tunga in Cordoba.

Author: Florine, Jane L

Published: 2001

Cordoba, Argentina, is the home of a regional type of dance music called cuarteto. Considered to be 'low-class'... [full description]

Hardback [1596-HB] £ 43.50 Add to order


Dance in the field, theory, methods and issues in dance ethnography.

Author: Buckland, Theresa (ed).

Published: 1999

A collection of articles designed to juxtapose major approaches to the ethnographic study of dance and movement. A new... [full description]

Hardback [0991-HB] £ 60.00 Add to order


Cover imageDancing fear & desire: race, sexuality, & imperial politics in Middle Eastern Dance.

Author: Karayanni, Stavros Stavrou

Published: 2004

Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move... [full description]

Paperback [3507-PB] £ 13.99 Add to order


Cover imageDancing from past to present: nation, culture, identities.

Author: Buckland, Theresa (ed).

Published: 2007

This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural... [full description]

Paperback [5173-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order


East meets West in dance, voices in the cross-cultural dialogue.

Author: Solomon, John & Ruth Solomon

Published: 1995

The development in the last few decades of dialogues between dance administrators, teachers, and performers in the... [full description]

Paperback [1457-PB] £ 27.99 Add to order


Everynight life.

Author: Delgado, Celeste Fraser & Munoz Jose Esteban

Published: 1997

Culture and dance in Latin/O America (Latin America Otherwise).

Paperback [0726-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order


Folk dances from around the world (World dance series).

Author: Cavalier, Debbie

Published:

A 20 page selection of instructions for dances from America, Germany, Italy, and France, with an accompanying CD and... [full description]

Paperback and CD [2587-PD] £ 18.75 Add to order


Folk dances of Latin America (World dance series). [Includes CD].

Author: Cavalier, Debbie

Published: 1997

Performing instructions for eight dances, with music score arranged for Orff percussion, and accompanying compact disc.

Paperback and CD [0678-PD] £ 18.95 Add to order


Folklore, cultural performances and popular entertainments.

Author: Bauman, Richard

Published: 1992

A collection of articles on folklore, drama, performance, and verbal and non-verbal communication, drawn from the... [full description]

Paperback [1138-PB] £ 15.50 Add to order


Cover imageGesture, gender, nation: dance and social change in Uzbekistan.

Author: Doi , Mary Masayo

Published: 2002

How the Soviet state used the performing arts to publicise programmes to enlist women as surrogate prolateriat in... [full description]

Hardback [1362-HB] £ 52.50 Add to order


Ghazala, a directory of middle Eastern dance in the UK.

Author: Walker, Philip

Published: 1998

A directory of dancers, dance groups, musicians, and other resources.

Paperback [0712-PB] £ 5.00 Add to order


Cover imageIrish dancing and other national dances.

Author: Storey, Rita

Published: 2005

A short, very basic guide for young teenagers, illustrated with colour photographs. As well as Irish dancing there are... [full description]

Hardback [4462-HB] £ 12.99 Add to order


Kanak dance and music.

Author: Ammann, Raymond

Published: 1997

The dance and music of the Kanak people of the Melanesian islands, New Caledonia. Music and Labanotation examples.

Paperback [1035-PB] £ 16.99 Add to order


Language, rhythm, and sound, black popular cultures into the twenty-first century.

Author: Adjaye, Joseph K. & Adrianne Andrews

Published: 1997

A fusion of empirical research with methodological discourse.

Paperback [0645-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order


Cover imageLine dancing and other folk dances.

Author: Storey, Rita

Published:

A short, very basic guide for young teenagers, illustrated with colour photographs. As well as line dancing there are... [full description]

Hardback [0562-HB] £ 12.99 Add to order


Cover imageMerengue and Dominican identity: music as national unifier.

Author: Sellers, Julie A

Published: 2004

The Merengue is internationally recognised as the Dominican republic's national dance, an integral and unifying element... [full description]

Paperback [2095-PB] £ 25.00 Add to order


Cover imageMulticultural folk dance guide, volume 1.

Author: Lane, Christy & Susan Langhout

Published: 1998

Short performing instructions for the following dances: Hora (Israel), Hukilau (Hawaii), Savila Se... [full description]

Paperback [4690-PB] £ 6.99 Add to order


Cover imageOriental belly dance.

Author: Ozdemir, Kemal

Published: 2002

A history of belly dancing in Turkey, with many illustrations, some in colour.

Paperback [0362-PB] £ 19.99 Add to order


Paper tangos.

Author: Taylor, Julie

Published: 1998 1998

The author, a classically trained dancer and anthropologist, examines the poetics of the tango while describing her own... [full description]

Paperback [0574-PB] £ 11.99 Add to order


Rumba.

Author: Daniel, Yvonne

Published: 1995

Dance and social change in contemporary Cuba.

Paperback [1804-PB] £ 12.95 Add to order


Cover imageSalsa - Havana heat, Bronx beat.

Author: Ospina, Hernando Calvo

Published: 1995

A fascinating journey through the development of Latin America's most popular music; a journey which begins on a slave... [full description]

Paperback [0794-PB] £ 9.99 Add to order


Samba, resistance in motion.

Author: Browning, Barbara

Published: 1995

A social history of the development of the Brazilian samba, considering also the complexity of Brazilian race... [full description]

Paperback [1360-PB] £ 11.99 Add to order


Samba.

Author: Guillermoprieto, Alma

Published: 1991

The story of a year spent by the author in one of the villages surrounding Rio de Janeiro, as the inhabitants prepare... [full description]

Paperback [0173-PB] £ 9.95 Add to order


Shaping society through dance, Mestizo ritual performance in the Peruvian Andes.

Author: Mendoza, Zoila S

Published: 2000

Mestizo ritual performance in the Peruvian Andes.

PAL Video [1624-VI] £ 48.00 Add to order


Shaping society through dance: Mestizo ritual performance in the Peruvian Andes.

Author: Mendoza, Zoila S

Published: 2000

During the patron saint fiesta in the Andean town of San Jeronimo, Peru, crowds gather an sunset eagerly awaiting the... [full description]

Hardback [1618-HB] £ 38.00 Add to order

Paperback [1618-PB] £ 22.50 Add to order


Tango and the political economy of passion.

Author: Savigliano, Marta

Published:

The politics of the tango, tracing its travels from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris and the shako... [full description]

Paperback [1203-PB] £ 27.50 Add to order


Cover imageTango Argentino, the technique, CD.

Author: Bottomer, Paul

Published: 1990

Twelve authentic Argentinian tangos, performed by Orchestra Tango Cafe.

CD [3669-CD] £ 14.99 Add to order


Cover imageThe tango in the United States.

Author: Groppa, Carlos G

Published: 2004

In the earliest years of the twentieth century, North American ballroom dancers favoured the waltz or the polka. But a... [full description]

Hardback [1249-HB] £ 29.95 Add to order


Tango, the dance, the song, the story.

Author: Collier, Simon & Artemis Cooper

Published: 1995

The rags-to-riches story of the tango, from its origins in the slums of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to the display... [full description]

Paperback [0921-PB] £ 18.95 Add to order


Cover imageTango: creation of a cultural icon.

Author: Baim, Jo

Published: 2007

Jo Baim here dispels common stereotypes of the tango and tells the real story behind this rich and complex dance.... [full description]

Paperback [5233-PB] £ 10.99 Add to order


A trade like any other: female singers and dancers in Egypt.

Author: Nieuwkerk, Karin van

Published: 1995

A study of dancers working in the Egyptian entertainment trade. Professional singers and dancers are considered... [full description]

Paperback [1666-PB] £ 15.95 Add to order


Cover imageThe way of the belly: 8 essential secrets of beauty, sensuality, health, happiness, and outrageous fun.

Author: Neena & Veena, Nancy Bruning

Published: 2006

In The way of the belly, Neena and Veena, known throughout the world as the Bellytwins, show you the fun,... [full description]

Hardback [4715-HB] £ 15.99 Add to order



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