Popular dance : from ballroom to hip-hop / Karen Lynn Smith ; consulting editor, Elizabeth A. Hanley ; foreword by Jacques D'Amboisse.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: World of dancePublication details: New York : Checkmark Books, ©2010.Description: 165 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781604134841 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1604134844
  • 9781604139778 (pbk.)
  • 1604139773 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 793.3 SMI
LOC classification:
  • GV1596.5 .S55 2010
Contents:
Introduction / Elizabeth A. Hanley -- Foreword / Jacques D'Amboise -- 1. The Renaissance -- 2. The age of the minuet : Baroque social dancing -- 3. Dancing in the colonies -- 4. Dance in the western United States -- 5. The nineteenth century through the Victorian era -- 6. Made in America -- 7. The early twentieth century -- 8. The roaring twenties -- 9. The mid-twentieth century -- 10. The late twentieth century -- 11. Dancing in the millennium -- Chronology.
Summary: "'Popular Dance: From Ballroom to Hip-Hop' takes readers on a journey through trends and developments in popular dance from European nobles during the Renaissance and early Baroque periods in Europe through to twenty-first century America." -- Book Cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-155) and index.

Introduction / Elizabeth A. Hanley -- Foreword / Jacques D'Amboise -- 1. The Renaissance -- 2. The age of the minuet : Baroque social dancing -- 3. Dancing in the colonies -- 4. Dance in the western United States -- 5. The nineteenth century through the Victorian era -- 6. Made in America -- 7. The early twentieth century -- 8. The roaring twenties -- 9. The mid-twentieth century -- 10. The late twentieth century -- 11. Dancing in the millennium -- Chronology.

"'Popular Dance: From Ballroom to Hip-Hop' takes readers on a journey through trends and developments in popular dance from European nobles during the Renaissance and early Baroque periods in Europe through to twenty-first century America." -- Book Cover.

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