| Description |
1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- List of Labanotation Examples -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 An Ethnochoreologist in 'The Kingdom' of Kerry -- 2 The Professional European Dancing Masters -- 3 Colonialism and the Itinerant Dancing Masters of North Kerry -- 4 Step Dancing as Embodied and Expressive Cultural Knowledge -- 5 Nationalism and the Invention of Irish Dancing -- 6 Step Dancing, Modernity and Change in North Kerry -- 7 Globalization and Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland -- 8 Conclusion: The Dynamicity of Step Dance -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book provides a rich historical and ethnographic account of step dancing, step dancers, and Irish cultural institutions. Catherine Foley tells the story of step dance from its roots in eighteenth-century Ireland to its modern globalized appeal. Foley applies a regional focus to her examination of step dace, looking at three step dance practices in North Kerry, in south-west Ireland: the rural Molyneaux; the urbanized, staged, competition-orientated practice, cultivated by the cultural nationalist movement, the Gaelic League; and the stylized, commodified, theatrical practice of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dance -- Social aspects -- Ireland
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Folk dancing, Irish -- History
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Ireland -- Social life and customs
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Step dancing -- Ireland -- History
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Folk dancing, Irish
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317050056 |
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1317050053 |
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