This book is about the folk: the folk in folk dance, the folk in folklore, the folk in folk wisdom. When we see folk dance on the stage or in a tourist setting, which is the way in which many of us experience folk dance, the question arises are these the “real folk” performing their authentic dances? Or are they urban, well trained, carefully-rehearsed professional dancers who make their livelihood as representatives of a specific nation-state acting as the folk? Or something in...
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Introduction.- Chapter 1 – The Folk.- Chapter 2 – Mazowsze: Poland on Stage.- Chapter 3 – The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: Proper Peasants.- Chapter 4 – Founding Ar...
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Anthony Shay is Professor of Dance and Cultural Studies in the Dance Department of Pomona College, Claremont, USA. Anthony is the author of eight monographs, and auth...