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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794877803321

Autore

Melin Mats

Titolo

One with the music : Cape Breton step dance tradition and transmission / / Mats Melin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, Nova Scotia : , : Cape Breton University Press, , [2015]

©2015

Ottawa, Ontario : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2016

ISBN

1-77206-029-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

793.3/197169

Soggetti

Step dancing - Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island

Step dance music - Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island

Libros electronicos.

Cape Breton Island (N.S.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 A Journey of Discovery: Aesthetic Qualities and Transmission Processes in Cape Breton Step Dancing -- Chapter 2 House Ceilidhs: Transmission and Cultural Transitions in the Home -- Chapter 3 Informal Dance Transmission in the Classroom -- Chapter 4 Transmission Processes at Concerts -- Chapter 5 "Pickin' it up" at the Square Dance -- Chapter 6 Lightly Dancing Close to the Floor: Characteristics of Cape Breton Step Dancing -- Chapter 7 Dancing the Music and "Musicking the Dance" -- Chapter 8 The Importance of Transmission in Keeping the Tradition Alive and Observed Changes to the Tradition -- Chapter 9 Biographical Sketches -- Appendix 1 Structural Analysis of Cape Breton Step Dance and Some Examples of Motifs -- Appendix 2 A Personal Ethnographic Reflection on Solo Step Dancing at a Square Dance.