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  • The Haumana Hula Handbook for Students of Hawaiian Dance

    A Manual for the Student of Hawaiian Dance

    A great resource for students of traditional Hawaiian dance, this beautiful handbook filled with archival photographs covers the origins, language, etiquette, ceremonies, and the spiritual culture of hula. Hula, the indigenous dance of Hawai'i, preserves significant aspects of Native Hawaiian culture with strong ties to health and spirituality. Kumu Hula, persons who are culturally recognized hula ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 交际舞入门学习指南

    舞蹈是艺术之母。自有人类以来,舞蹈就在原始社会的人类生活里产生了,氏族成员在祭祀、耕耘或时都离不开舞蹈活动。在原始部落的生活中,没有文字和完善的语言,沟通就需要通过肢体动作来完成,其动作和节奏与劳动是密切相关的。在各种劳动中,人的手脚总是要活动的,用手拍打、以脚踩踏,在某种动作连续重复过程中,就产生有规律的节奏,再伴以各种呼喊声或打击石块和木棍的声音,就形成了原始的舞蹈。舞蹈充当原始人类交流思想和表达感情的主要形式。 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Simple Story: The Last Malambo

    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    Obsession and mastery in their purest states: the story of one dancer’s attempt to win the biggest contest of his life.Every year, at the height of summer, the remote Argentine village of Laborde holds the national malambo contest. Centuries-old, this shatteringly demanding traditional gaucho dance is governed by the most rigid rules. And this festival has one stipulation that makes it unique: the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Illini Place

    Building the University of Illinois Campus

    Series series Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
    Why does the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign look as it does today? Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs, An Illini Place provides an engrossing and beautiful answer to that question. Lex Tate and John Franch trace the story of the university's evolution through its buildings. Oral histories, official reports, dedication programs, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Abidjan USA

    Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants

    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    “Studies of four musicians . . . and a broader discussion about diaspora and migration provides an important study of African music in the United States.” —Alex Perullo, author of Live from Dar es SalaamDaniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dan Ge Performance

    Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire

    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    “An excellent study of both the visible and invisible elements that constitute the Ge performance of the Dan People of western Côte d’Ivoire.” —The World of MusicGe, formerly translated as “mask” or “masquerade,” appears among the Dan people of Côte d’Ivoire as a dancing and musical embodiment of their social ideals and religious beliefs. In Dan Ge Performance, Daniel B. Reed sets out to discover ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna

    Chants, Music, and Sacred Practices of the Great Goddess

    An experiential guide to the ancient healing rituals of the Black Madonna• Reveals the practices and rites of the still-living cult of the Black Madonna in the remote villages of Southern Italy, including the healing rites of the tarantella dance• Details shamanic chants, rhythms, and songs and how to use them for self-healing, transformation, and recovery from abuse, trauma, depression, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Balinese Dance, Drama & Music

    A Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali

    Discover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms.This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of traditional performing arts in Bali--among the most intricate and spectacular musical and theatrical performances found anywhere. Ideal reading for visitors to the island, as well as anyone interested in Balinese culture, this book presents the history ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • One with the Music

    Cape Breton Step Dance Tradition and Transmission

    Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New Zealand. Mats has a vast knowledge of all aspects of the Scottish traditional dance scene, but ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Global Tarantella

    Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances

    Series series Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
    Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals, performed across the Italian diaspora, even adapted for New Age spiritual practices. The boom in popularity has diversified tarantella in practice while setting it within a host of new, unexpected contexts. Incoronata Inserra ventures into the history, global ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Desenjaular el Juego 2

    Series Book 2 - A Desenjaular el Juego
    "A desenjaular el Juego 2", al igual que el primer "Desenjaular", contiene una recopilación de juegos y canciones de América Latina. La particularidad de estos juegos es que son todos musicales y de carácter tradicional. Aportan sonidos y modismos empapados del folklore de cada región, con la intención de enriquecer el repertorio musical para las infancias y proporcionar a los docentes nuevos ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Graceful Resistance

    How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement

    Series series Interp Culture New Millennium
    Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation—and leads many participants into activism.Lauren Miller Griffith’s extensive participant observation with multiple capoeira groups informs her ethnography of capoeiristas--both individuals and groups--in the United States. Griffith follows ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Flamenco Music

    History, Forms, Culture

    by Peter Manuel ...
    An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art formAn iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music’s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamenco’s Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the music’s evolution through its consolidation in the mid-1800s and on to the vibrant ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fraught Balance

    The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria

    Series series Music / Culture
    Dabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of the country's war and the social tensions that preceded conflict. Drawing on almost two decades of ethnographic, archival, and digital research, Shayna M. Silverstein shows how dabke dance music embodies the fraught dynamics of gender, class, ethnicity, and nationhood in an authoritarian state. The book situates dabke ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

    A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in “dancing goddesses,” mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. In The Dancing Goddesses, archaeologist, linguist, and lifelong folkdancer Elizabeth ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 中国古典舞蹈的“和”品格

    by 罗斌 ...
    本书分为五章,以“品格”作为基石,多元性、多角度对中国古典舞文化传承中的形态和意识层面进行了深刻论述,尤其重视审美分析背后的哲学研究,为中国古典舞风韵奠定科学性的理论根基,是一部适用于舞蹈专业学生和研究学者参考的理论书籍。 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Staging Brazil

    Choreographies of Capoeira

    Winner of Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research, given by DSA, 2021Staging Brazil: Choreographies of Capoeira is the first in-depth study of the processes of legitimization and globalization of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian combat game practiced today throughout the world. Ana Paula Höfling contextualizes the emergence of the two main styles of capoeira, angola and regional, within ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 西北地区信奉伊斯兰教民族婚俗舞蹈研究

    by 马盛德著 ...
    在中国甘、青、宁的撒拉族、回族聚居区和新疆地区的维吾尔族聚居区,在民间婚礼中,曾经活跃着三种婚俗性的民间舞蹈表演。然而,随着历史的推进,有的舞种经久不衰,有的舞种悄然消失。这是一个令人感兴趣的舞蹈历史现象。舞蹈历史兴衰的“谜底”是什么?本书以生活在中国西北地区的撒拉族、回族、维吾尔族婚礼中的民间舞蹈为研究对象,在大量第一手调查资料、文献资料的基础上,试图分析撒拉族的《堆依奥依纳》、回族的《宴席舞》和维吾尔族的《纳孜尔库姆》这三种婚俗舞蹈各自兴衰的过程。 ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 嘉绒跳锅庄:墨尔多神山下的舞蹈、仪式与族群表述

    by 李菲著 ...
    墨尔多神山脚下,大小金川蜿蜒流淌于嘉绒藏地。在这片古老的土地上,有甲居神秘的“玛尼”,梭坡、中路欢舞的“卓”和巴底、太平桥神圣庄严的“达勒嘎”……这些鲜活的地方性族群传统与世所熟知的汉语名词“跳锅庄”,不仅是民俗学“我称”与“他称”的区别,也不能被轻率地理解为“类比性总称”与“个别专名”的类属关系,它们之间的不同是根本性的,是一个名为“嘉绒”的共同体在神圣与世俗之间践行的一套族群文化表述模式:在以“歌”与“舞”为表征的身体实践系统中,可以联结起嘉绒的历史记忆与当下现实,分辨出“我”与“他”的异与同、远与近。对于嘉绒人来说,“跳锅庄”不是游客“凝视”下的文化展演品,而是关乎其如何理解、表达传统与自我,如何在社会进程的实践情境中调整认同,从过去走向未来的根本方式之一。 ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 定县秧歌:从乡村戏到非遗

    by 谷子瑞 ...
    本书立足田野现实和文献资料,以组织形式和演出模式为主线,梳理定县秧歌百年来的发展脉络,探究其传承演变的历史动因。在这起起伏伏的百年历程里,定县秧歌犹如一叶轻舟,在知识分子、管理组织、现代化等力量交织的历史洪流中演进。然而,看似身不由己的秧歌,始终野性难驯、自有方向。源于乡野的它,深深扎根在这片拥有共同文化基因的土地上、人心上,潜藏着无限的生机与可能。 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Styling Blackness in Chile

    Music and Dance in the African Diaspora

    Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on hide-head drums, the tumbe resonated with cosmopolitan images of what the African Diaspora looks like, and so helped bring attention to a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Creating Our Own

    Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru

    In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the “folkloric arts”—particularly music, dance, and drama—in Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role that these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional identities. Mendoza argues that the folkloric productions emerging in Cuzco in the early twentieth century were integral to, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Everynight Life

    Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

    Series series Latin America otherwise
    The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Dance Theory

    Source Readings from Two Millennia of Western Dance

    Edited by Tilden Russell ...
    The history of dance theory has never been told. Writers in every age have theorized prescriptively, according to their own needs and ideals, and theorists themselves having continually asserted the lack of any pre-existing dance theory. Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millenia of Western Dance revives and reintegrates dance theory as a field of historical dance studies, presenting a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD $22.99 USD