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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823143403321

Autore

Spalding Susan Eike

Titolo

Appalachian dance : creativity and continuity in six communities / / Susan Eike Spalding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Illinois ; ; Springfield, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-252-08015-7

0-252-09645-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

793.34

Soggetti

Square dancing

History

Appalachian Region Social life and customs

Appalachian Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""1. Dynamic Traditions""; ""2. Lively Dance Currents""; ""3. Old Time Dancing in Northeast Tennessee: Traditional Values in an Industrial Region""; ""4. Blue Ridge Breakdown: Stability and Tradition in an African American Community""; ""5. Mr. Perry's Sweet Shop and a New Old Time Dance""; ""6. Dance at Pine Mountain Settlement School: Ideals and Institutions""; ""7. ""Rise and Shine"": Dancing for Community Development at Hoedown Island""; ""8. The Carcassonne Square Dance: A True Revival""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""

""Works Cited""""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

In 'Appalachian Dance', Susan Eike Spalding employs 25 years' worth of rich interviews with black and white Virginians, Tennesseans and Kentuckians to explore the evolution and social uses of dance practices in each region. Spalding analyzes how issues as disparate as industrialization around coal, race relations and the 1970's folk revival profoundly influenced freestyle clogging and other dance forms.