TY  - BOOK
AU  - Magriel,Paul David
TI  - Chronicles of the American dance: from the Shakers to Martha Graham 
SN  - 0306800829
AV  - GV1623 .M33 1978b
U1  - 792.80973 20
PY  - 1978///, ©1948
CY  - New York
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - Dance
KW  - United States
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; The dance in Shaker ritual; by E.D. Andrews --; John Durang: the first American dancer; by Lillian Moore --; Juba and American minsrelsy /; by Marian Hannah Winter --; The black crook and the white fawn /; by George Freedley --; The Dodworth Family and ballroom dancing in New York /; by Rosetta O'Neill --; THE CLASSIC DANCERS; Mary Ann Lee: first American Giselle; by Lillian Moore --; Augusta Maywood /; by Marian Hannah Winter --; George Washington Smith /; by Lillian Moore --; AMERICAN INNOVATORS; Isadora Duncan; by William Bolitho --; Loie Fuller: the fairy of light /; by Clare de Morinni --; Maud Allan /; by Carl Van Vechten --; The Denishawn era (1914-1931); by Baird Hastings --; The recent theater of Martha Graham /; by Robert Horan
N2  - "The dance has had a long history on the American continent. Before the New World was "discovered," there was dancing in the Mexico of Montezuma and the pueblos of the Southwest. Countless centuries before he Spanish invader brought the horse to the Great Plains, the unmounted, pedestrian tribes danced for the hunt, the wa, and for medicine. When Virginia and Florida were explored in the sixteenth century, French and English adventurers sketched the ceremonials they witnessed and left descriptions that have come down to us today." -- Preface
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