Balkan fascination
Subtitle: creating an alternative music culture in America / Mirjana Laušević.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195178678
Subjects: Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism; Folk music -- Balkan Peninsula -- History and criticism; Music -- United States -- Balkan Peninsula influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Ethnography of the Balkan Music and Dance Scene: Chapter 1: The "Balkanites" ; Chapter 2: Why Balkan?; title: 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; title: 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; title: Part IV: 1950s and beyond ; Chapter 8: International folk dance and the "Balkan craze" ; Chapter 9: The rise of Balkan scene; title: conclusion.