Howe's complete ball-room hand book : containing upwards of three hundred dances, including all the latest and most fashionable dances, 1858 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Howe, Elias, 1820-1895, author.
Imprint:	Boston : Brown, Taggard & Chase, Publishers, [1858]
Description:	1 online resource (1 volume (118 pages)) : illustrations (black and white).
Language:	English
Series:	Gender. Identity and social change Gender. Identity and social change.
Subject:	Ballroom dancing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12934684

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Varying Form of Title:	Complete ball-room hand book
Other authors / contributors:	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
Notes:	AMDigital Reference: RS M97M T. Includes index. Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018. Digitized from a copy held by the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and made available by Adam Matthew Digital. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Description based on online resource; title from scanned document's title page (viewed on July 9, 2018).
Summary:	To demonstrate the authority of this manual, the publisher claims the author to be American inventor, Elias Howe. Similar to many other dance manuals published throughout the nineteenth century, this book is a publisher's compilation of other sources. The book begins with a description of ballroom etiquette, dress, appropriate music, and rules for prompters. The manual continues with discussion of the era's most popular dances including quadrilles, waltz, polka, schottisch, gorlitza, polka mazurka, country dances, and figures for forty-two "French Fancy Cotillons," (also known as the cotillon or German), a group dance performed as a series of party games, usually to waltz music.
Target Audience:	Specialized.

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