Balkan fascination : creating an alternative music culture in America /
Laušević, Mirjana.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2007.
Accompanying disc is a hybrid CD/DVD-video disc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Ethnography of the Balkan Music and Dance Scene: Chapter 1: The "Balkanites" ; Chapter 2: Why Balkan? -- Part II: Folk dancing and turn of the century America ; Chapter 3: Folk dancing and the settlement movement ; Chapter 4: Folk dancing and the physical education and recreation movements -- Part III: International folk dancing between the 1930s and 1950s ; Chapter 5: Dance and be merry ; Chapter 6: Emergence of the new folk dance leaders: Vytautas Beliajus, Song Chang, Michael Herman ; Chapter 7: Folk dance as a national trend -- Part IV: 1950s and beyond ; Chapter 8: International folk dance and the "Balkan craze" ; Chapter 9: The rise of Balkan scene -- conclusion.
Folk music
Folk music
Music