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Author Melin, Mats

Title Dance Legacies of Scotland The True Glen Orchy Kick
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (285 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. I wish I had it in my power to describe to you: introductory observations on Step dance and its place in Scotland -- 2. From regional variations to standardisation of vernacular dance -- 3. Na brògan dannsaidh/The dancing shoes: foot anatomy, footwear, and body posture -- 4. Gaelic references and continental European connections -- 5. From Hornpipes to High Dances: historical terms and overlapping usage -- 6. Hyland step forward: eighteenth-century accounts
7. A few more flings and shuffles: nineteenth-century accounts, 1800-1839 -- 8. Aberdeenshire to the Hebrides: nineteenth-century accounts, 1840-1899 -- 9. Breakdown: twentieth-century accounts -- 10. An t-Seann Dùthaich: dancing in the Scottish diaspora -- 11. First-hand Step dance encounters and recollections in Scotland from the 1980s to 2016 collected by Mats Melin -- 12. Weaving the steps to the music -- 13. Echoes and reflections -- Appendix-Tune examples as given in the text -- Bibliography -- Index -- General -- Dance titles -- Song/tune titles -- People -- Places and languages
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Schoonover, Jennifer
ISBN 9781000334111
1000334112