Author: J. S. Hopkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This manual is an excellent source for ragtime era dances including the one step, tango, Brazilian maxixe, and hesitation waltz. The book is richly illustrated with more than twenty photos of many famous exhibition ballroom couples such as Irene and Vernon Castle, and Maurice and Florence Walden.
The Tango and Other Up-to-date Dances
Author: J. S. Hopkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This manual is an excellent source for ragtime era dances including the one step, tango, Brazilian maxixe, and hesitation waltz. The book is richly illustrated with more than twenty photos of many famous exhibition ballroom couples such as Irene and Vernon Castle, and Maurice and Florence Walden.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballroom dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This manual is an excellent source for ragtime era dances including the one step, tango, Brazilian maxixe, and hesitation waltz. The book is richly illustrated with more than twenty photos of many famous exhibition ballroom couples such as Irene and Vernon Castle, and Maurice and Florence Walden.
The Tango and Other Up to Date Dances
Author: J. S. Hopkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877006596
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877006596
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Dancing Tango
Author: Kathy Davis
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814760295
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which a modest, yet growing number of dancers from different parts of the globe meet on the dance floor. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture. She shows how they negotiate the ambivalences, contradictions, and hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and global relations of power between North and South in which Argentinean tango is—and has always been—embroiled. Davis also explores her uneasiness about her own passion for a dance which—when seen through the lens of contemporary critical feminist and postcolonial theories—seems, at best, odd, and, at worst, disreputable and even a bit shameful. She uses the disjuncture between the incorrect pleasures and complicated politics of dancing tango as a resource for exploring the workings of passion as experience, as performance, and as cultural discourse. She concludes that dancing tango should be viewed less as a love/hate embrace with colonial overtones than a passionate encounter across many different borders between dancers who share a desire for difference and a taste of the ‘elsewhere.’ Dancing Tango is a vivid, intriguing account of an important global cultural phenomenon.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814760295
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders.Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which a modest, yet growing number of dancers from different parts of the globe meet on the dance floor. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture. She shows how they negotiate the ambivalences, contradictions, and hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and global relations of power between North and South in which Argentinean tango is—and has always been—embroiled. Davis also explores her uneasiness about her own passion for a dance which—when seen through the lens of contemporary critical feminist and postcolonial theories—seems, at best, odd, and, at worst, disreputable and even a bit shameful. She uses the disjuncture between the incorrect pleasures and complicated politics of dancing tango as a resource for exploring the workings of passion as experience, as performance, and as cultural discourse. She concludes that dancing tango should be viewed less as a love/hate embrace with colonial overtones than a passionate encounter across many different borders between dancers who share a desire for difference and a taste of the ‘elsewhere.’ Dancing Tango is a vivid, intriguing account of an important global cultural phenomenon.
Books Added
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Tango in the United States
Author: Carlos G. Groppa
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786426861
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But then a new dance, the tango, broke onto the scene when Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway musical. Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Murray, and Xavier Cugat popularized it in the 1920s and 1930s, and thousands of people crowded onto dance floors around the country to hear the music and dance the tango. This work chronicles the history of the tango in the United States, from its antecedents in Argentina, Paris and London to the present day. It covers the dancers, musicians, and composers, and the tango’s influence on American music.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786426861
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But then a new dance, the tango, broke onto the scene when Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway musical. Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Murray, and Xavier Cugat popularized it in the 1920s and 1930s, and thousands of people crowded onto dance floors around the country to hear the music and dance the tango. This work chronicles the history of the tango in the United States, from its antecedents in Argentina, Paris and London to the present day. It covers the dancers, musicians, and composers, and the tango’s influence on American music.
Glamour Addiction
Author: Juliet McMains
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819567744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Behind the scenes of DanceSport.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819567744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Behind the scenes of DanceSport.
Books of 1912-
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Books of 1911-
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description