The Irish dancing : cultural politics and identities, 1900-2000 / by O'Connor, Barbara (Cultural historian)

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The Moiseyev Dance Company tours America : "wholesome" comfort during a Cold War / by Hallinan, Victoria, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Creation of the State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble of the USSR -- Chapter 2. Internal and External Propaganda Tool -- Part Two -- Chapter 3. …”
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Min zu ge wu zhi hua /

民族歌舞之花 /

Subjects: “…Folk dancing China 20th century Pictorial works.…”

Dancing the world smaller : staging globalism in mid-century America / by Kowal, Rebekah J.

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Dancing the world smaller : staging globalism in mid-century America / by Kowal, Rebekah J.

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Dancing the world smaller : staging globalism in mid-century America / by Kowal, Rebekah J.

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Ethel Waters : I touched a sparrow / by Knaack, Twila

“…Steve Cates Folk Dance Collection…”

Bringing Zion home : Israel in American Jewish culture, 1948-1967 / by Katz, Emily Alice, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Postwar American Jewry reconsidered -- Before Exodus : writing Israel for an American audience -- Hora hootenannies and Yemenite hoedowns : Israeli folk dance in America -- A consuming passion : Israeli goods in American Jewish culture -- Cultural emissaries and the culture explosion : introducing Israeli art and music.…”
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Embodying Hebrew culture : aesthetics, athletics, and dance in the Jewish community of mandate Palestine / by Spiegel, Nina S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Embodying Hebrew Culture -- Searching for Hebrew Beauty : The Queen Esther Competitions, 1926-1929 -- Promoting Sport : The First Maccabiah Games, 1932 -- Producing Theatrical Dance : The National Dance Competition, 1937 -- Creating National Folk Dance : The Dalia Dance Festivals, 1944 and 1947 -- Conclusion : The Enduring Legacy.…”
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Dancing class : gender, ethnicity, and social divides in American Dance, 1890-1920 / by Tomko, Linda J.

Table of Contents: “…Bodies and dances in Progressive-era America -- Constituting culture, authorizing dance -- The settlement house and the playhouse: cultivating dance on New York's Lower East Side -- From Henry Street to Grand Street: transfer and transition to the neighborhood playhouse -- Working women's dancing, and dance as women's work: Hull-House, Chicago Commons, and Boston's South End House -- Folk dance, park fetes, and period political values.…”
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Rolf Gardiner : folk, nature and culture in interwar Britain / by Jefferies, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Matthew Jefferies and Mike Tyldesley -- Rolf Gardiner: pioneer of British youth culture, 1920-39 / David Fowler -- Rolf Gardiner and German naturism / Matthew Jefferies -- "Potencies of the earth": Rolf Gardiner and the English folk dance revival / Georgina Boyes -- Rolf Gardiner, farming and the English landscape / Richard Moore-Colyer -- Rolf Gardiner and pacifism: the case of Max Plowman / Mike Tyldesley -- The dangers of definition: post-facto opinions on Rolf Gardiner's attitudes towards Nazi Germany / Richard Griffiths -- Rolf Gardiner: an honorary Nazi? …”

Swinging the machine : modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars / by Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, bodies and machines -- The tempo of life is out of control, and then righted -- The jazz train and American musical modernity -- African American modernism and the techno-dialogic : from John Henry to Duke Ellington -- Swinging the machines : big bands and streamliner trains -- The standardized white girl in the pleasure machine : the Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s musicals -- Tap dancers rap back at the machine -- America's national folk dance : the Lindy hop -- The world of tomorrow...in the groove : swinging the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 -- Conclusion: the continuing importance of swinging the machine.…”

Swinging the machine : modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars / by Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, bodies and machines -- The tempo of life is out of control, and then righted -- The jazz train and American musical modernity -- African American modernism and the techno-dialogic : from John Henry to Duke Ellington -- Swinging the machines : big bands and streamliner trains -- The standardized white girl in the pleasure machine : the Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s musicals -- Tap dancers rap back at the machine -- America's national folk dance : the Lindy hop -- The world of tomorrow...in the groove : swinging the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 -- Conclusion: the continuing importance of swinging the machine.…”
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American allegory : Lindy hop and the racial imagination / by Hancock, Black Hawk, 1971-

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The making of the middle class : toward a transnational history /

Table of Contents: “…: aspiration, acquisition, and the American middle class / Marina Moskowitz -- The gatekeepers : middle-class campaigns of citizenship in early Cold War Canada / Franca Iacovetta -- The conundrum of the middle-class worker in the twentieth-century United States : the professional managerial workers' (folk) dance around class / Daniel J. Walkowitz -- Becoming middle class : the local history of a global story, colonial Bombay, 1890-1940 / Prashant Kidambi -- Conscripts of democracy : the formation of a professional middle class in Bogotá during the 1950s and early 1960s / A. …”
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Looking out, looking in : anthology of Latino poetry /

Table of Contents: “…The daughter of my imagination ; Aida / Rafael Campo -- Not just because my husband said / Ana Castillo -- Rincón ; I brought Abuelo Leopoldo back from the dead and moved him to Miami ; Leavings / Sandra Castillo -- Stolen kisses are the sweetest ; Letter from Lucrezia Borgia to her confessor / Carlota Caulfield -- To we who were saved by the stars / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Caminando a solas ; Walking alone ; Labor de retazos ; Patchwork ; Carta a Arturo ; Letter to Arturo / Lucha Corpi -- Kilotons and then some / Carlos Cumpían -- Stupid America / Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado -- Black train through the ancient empire of Chicago ; Trumpets from the islands of their eviction ; Niggerlips / Martín Espada -- The given account ; Hubble's law ; The battle of Nashville ; A warm day in winter ; Proof ; Lighter / Blas Falconer -- After 21 years, a postcard from my father ; Sor Juana's litany in the subjunctive ; Confessions / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- Outline for a Cuban folk-dance / Lourdes Gil -- I am Joaquín: an epic poem / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales -- Memory of the hand / Ray Gonzáles -- Helen ; Martha at the edge of desire ; Maria and the others / Franklin Gutiérrez -- Going uptown to visit Miriam ; Three days/out of Franklin ; The physics of Ochun / Victor Hernández Cruz -- El trópico ; Dear tía ; An unexpected conversation ; The child of exile ; The hyphenated man ; Sorting Miami ; Freedom ; Blake in the Tropics ; Geography jazz ; How the Cubans stole Miami / Carolina Hospital -- Woman, woman ; When conventional methods fail / Angela de Hoyos -- Fresa / Gabriela Jáuregui -- Havana blues ; Forgotten memory / Wasabi Kanastoga -- jesús papote ; tito madera smith ; AmeRícan ; lady liberty ; my graduation speech ; tesis de negreza ; nideaquinideallá / Tato Laviera -- Ahora y siempre ; Mi madre ; Nuyorico ; S.P.I.C. / Caridad de la Luz (La Bru-j-a).…”
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Music theater and popular nationalism in Spain, 1880-1930 / by Young, Clinton D.

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