Balkan dance : essays on characteristics, performance and teaching /
[edited by] Anthony Shay.
- Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, 2008.
- x, 281 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Richard George "Dick" Crum: a life / 2. Introduction: choreographing the Balkans / Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Performance : 3. Transnational čoček: gender and the politics of Balkan Romani dance / 4. Dance and place: the case of a Roma community in northern Greece / 5. Dance as propaganda: the Metaxas regime's stadium ceremonies, 1937-1940 / 6. Nationalism and scholarship in Transylvanian ethnochoreology / 7. Bulgarian dance culture: from censorship to chalga / 8. Clapping for Serbs: nationalism and performance in Bosnia and Herzegovina / 9. Choreographing the other: the Serbian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Gypsies, Muslims, and Albanians / Balkan Dance in America : 10. "Inside, outside, upside-down": the role of mainstream society participants in the ethnic dance movement / 11. Balkan tradition, American alternative: dance, community, and the people of the pines / Morphology of Balkan Dance and Music : 12. Hai la joc! periodicity at play in Romanian dance music / 13. Dvoransko kolo: from the 1840s to the twentieth century / 14. Dance structure and its application to the understanding of Macedonian "cross" dances / Robert Henry Leibman -- Anthony Shay -- Carol Silverman -- Christos Papakostas -- Irene Loutzaki -- Colin Quigley -- Erica Nielsen -- Lynn D. Maners -- Anthony Shay -- Robin J. Evanchuk -- June Adler Vail -- Jamie L. Webster -- Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter -- Robert Henry Leibman.
"This collection of essays examines popular forms of dance in the Balkan nations. The essays address the ways in which ethnic and national identity constitutes an important aspect of the performance of Balkan dance. Several essays examine the popularity that Balkan dances and music have found among American audiences"--Provided by publisher.