Balkan fascination
Subtitle: creating an alternative music culture in America
By: Mirjana Laušević
Series: American musicspheres
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism; Folk music -- Balkan Peninsula -- History and criticism; Music -- United States -- Balkan Peninsula influences
Description: Accompanying DVD (ca. 46 min. : sd., col. ; one side of accompanying disc) consists of 14 video segments, 1 professionaly taped and 13 apparently taped by the author. Full details of contents on p. 297-298.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index

Compact disc accompanying this book shelved in Music Listening Center
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Ethnography of the Balkan Music and Dance Scene ; The "Balkanites" ; Why Balkan?; title: Part II: Folk dancing and turn-of-the-century America ; Folk dancing and the settlement movement ; Folk dancing and the physical education and recreation movements; title: Part III: International folk dancing from the 1930s and 1950s ; Dance and be merry ; Emergence of the new folk dance leaders: Vytautas Beliajus, Song Chang, Michael Herman ; Folk dance as a national trend; title: Part IV: 1950s and beyond ; International folk dance and the "Balkan craze" ; The rise of the Balkan scene; title: conclusion