Balkan fascination : creating an alternative music culture in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Laušević, Mirjana.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:	x, 299 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.).
Language:	English
Series:	American musicspheres
Subject:	Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism. Folk music -- Balkan Peninsula -- History and criticism. Music -- United States -- Balkan Peninsula influences. Folk music. Balkan Peninsula. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6230738

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ISBN:	019517867X (alk. paper) 9780195178678 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I. Ethnography of the Balkan music and dance scene
1. The "Balkanites"
2. Why Balkan?
Pt. II. Folk dancing and turn-of-the-century America
3. Folk dancing and the settlement movement
4. Folk dancing and the physical education and recreation movements
Pt. III. International folk dancing from the 1930s to the 1950s
5. Dance and be merry
6. Emergence of the new folk dance leaders : Vytautas Beliajus, Song Chang, and Michael Herman
7. Folk dance as a national trend
Pt. IV. The 1950s and beyond
8. International folk dance and the "Balkan craze"
9. The rise of the Balkan scene
10. Conclusion.

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