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Author:   Anthony Shay
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780786432288

ISBN 10:   0786432284
Pages:   291
Publication Date:   26 December 2007
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      1. Richard George “Dick” Crum: A Life ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN      2. Introduction: Choreographing the Balkans ANTHONY SHAY      Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Performance 3. Transnational ToVek: Gender and the Politics of Balkan Romani Dance CAROL SILVERMAN      4. Dance and Place: The Case of a Roma Community in Northern Greece CHRISTOS PAPAKOSTAS      5. Dance as Propaganda: The Metaxas Regime’s Stadium Ceremonies, 1937–1940 IRENE LOUTZAKI      6. Nationalism and Scholarship in Transylvanian Ethnochoreology COLIN QUIGLEY      7. Bulgarian Dance Culture: From Censorship to Chalga ERICA NIELSEN      8. Clapping for Serbs: Nationalism and Performance Bosnia and Herzegovina LYNN D. MANERS      9. Choreographing the Other: The Serbian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Gypsies, Muslims, and Albanians ANTHONY SHAY      Balkan Dance in America 10. “Inside, Outside, Upside-Down”: The Role of Mainstream Society Participants in the Ethnic Dance Movement ROBIN J. EVANCHUK      11. Balkan Tradition, American Alternative: Dance, Community, and the People of the Pines JUNE ADLER VAIL      Morphology of Balkan Dance and Music 12. Hai la Joc! Periodicity at Play in Romanian Dance Music JAMIE L. WEBSTER      13. Dvoransko Kolo: From the 1840s to the Twentieth Century NANCY LEE CHALFA RUYTER      14. Dance Structure and Its Application to the Understanding of Macedonian “Cross” Dances ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN      About the Contributors      Index     

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Award winning choreographer Anthony Shay is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Pomona College, Claremont, California. His articles have appeared in Dance Research Journal, Iranian Studies Journal, International Encyclopedia of Dance, and other publications.

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