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  • In-Between Worlds

    Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • In Search of Legitimacy

    How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

    Series Book 7 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historically disparaged and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Il Tango E' Sempre Una Storia d'Amore

    Il tango argentino e' sempre piu' popolare al di fuori di Buenos Aires, ma molti pregiudizi e false credenze sono svelate da questo libretto che illustra invece la vera essenza del ballo originale. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I wanted to dance

    CARLOS EDUARDO GAVITO (4/27/1943 – 7/1/2005) was born in La Plata, Argentina. He spent his youth in the barrio of Avellaneda (to the south of Greater Buenos Aires) and the rest of his life circling the globe.He traveled for more than forty years and visited more than ninety countries. He spoke English, Italian, French and Portuguese fluently and could make himself understood in German, Russian and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How To Dance With a Partner

    The Gentle Method of Unambiguously Communicating Every Step in Every Social Dance

    The solution to a 1,000-year-old problem. This book solves the biggest problem in social dancing that affects millions of people. The problem is how to communicate unambiguously. Dance teachers have an enormous wealth of knowledge. However, when explaining how to communicate, they are surprisingly vague. This vagueness is not the fault of dance teachers. Men and women have been social dancing ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • 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

  • Handbook of Dance Terminology

    Dictionary of Vocabulary for Middle Eastern Studies

    Middle Eastern Dance is also known as Belly Dance in the USA. It is a misunderstood dance form that deserves respect and recognition equal to that of of other etnic dance forms like Flamenco, Indian and Polynesian. This book helps "raise the barre" by educatingMiddle Eastern dancers and students in general dance theory and terminology.  Terms used in all dance forms that pertain to Belly Dance. ... Read more

    $5.99 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

  • Gods of God's Own Country - Theyyam Stories

    Confessions of a Monkey-Trapped Prodigal Son of The God's Own Country

    Series Book 2 - The Gods of The God's Own Country
    This storybook is the second part of the book: "The Gods of The God's Own Country: THEYYAM Publishing published it as volume II because of Amazon's file size limit (650MB). The royalties from this book will be donated to those destitute Gods of the God’s Own Country for a Greater Purpose.The Gods of God's Own Country is a reminder of a forgotten culture and the communities surrounding it. Theyyam ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gods of God's Own Country - Theyyam

    Confessions of a Monkey-Trapped Prodigal Son of The God's Own Country

    Series Book 1 - The Gods of The God's Own Country
    The Gods of God's Own Country is a reminder of a forgotten culture and the communities surrounding it. Theyyam is a Dravidian ritual art form of Kerala, India - God's own country. This book provides detailed information about Theyyam, beautiful images, and hundreds of stories. We dedicate this book to the Theyyam artists, the veritable gods "Of the People, by the People, for the People."The author ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing

    An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective

    Series series McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton ... Read more

    $58.99 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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  • Folk-dancing as a Popular Recreation: A Handbook

    "Miss Burchenal is the best-known American exponent and teacher of the folk-dance." -The Survey"Elizabeth Burchenal has won wide recognition for her celebration of folk dancing." -The Little PaperAs Elizabeth Burchenal notes in her 1922 book "Folk Dancing As A Popular Recreation," folk dancing has great and worthy purposes to serve; it is a pure and fundamental art form, and as such should be ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Folk Theatres of North India

    Contestation, Amalgamation and Transference

    by Karan Singh ...
    This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Focus: Irish Traditional Music

    by Sean Williams ...
    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    Focus: Irish Traditional Music, Second Edition introduces the instrumental and vocal musics of Ireland, its diaspora in North America, and its Celtic neighbors while exploring the essential values underlying these rich musical cultures and placing them in broader historical and social context. With both the undergraduate and graduate student in mind, the text weaves together past and present, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Read more

    $24.99 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

  • Fire Under My Feet

    History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

    Edited by Ofosuwa M. Abiola ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse, significant, and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora.In the book, written documentation and diverse methodologies are buttressed by the experiences of those whose lives are built around the practice of African diaspora dance. Replete with original perspectives, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Finger Cymbals: Play Them Correctly

    Finger Cymbals: Discover how easy it is to play Finger Cymbals. This book helps raise the "barre" by educating Middle Eastern dancers and students on the playing of zills correctly. Play exactly what the body is accenting when dancing. Play exactly what the drummer is playing, live or on CD. Never get off rhythm again. You will understand the rhythms used for the belly dancer. ... Read more

    $3.99 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

  • Ethical Agility in Dance

    Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

    This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • El pulpo o la muerte del tango

    by Luis Longhi ...
    Los integrantes de un modesto quinteto de tango se encuentran ante un hito trascendental en su carrera hacia la consagración. Pero el Tano y sus músicos se topan con un obstáculo aparentemente insalvable en su camino hacia la gloria: para participar del "Festival del Bandoneonazo" deben hacerlo con la presencia de un cantor de tango, especie a la que ellos odian con devoción. El cantor elegido es ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Pulpo O La Muerte Del Tango

    by Luis Longhi ...
    Los integrantes de un modesto quinteto de tango se encuentran ante un hito trascendental en su carrera hacia la consagración. Pero el Tano y sus músicos se topan con un obstáculo aparentemente insalvable en su camino hacia la gloria: para participar del “Festival del Bandoneonazo” deben hacerlo con la presencia de un cantor de tango, especie a la que ellos odian con devoción. El cantor elegido es ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus