BOUNTY CHORDS: MUSIC, DANCE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE ON NORFOLK AND PITCAIRN ISLANDS

Dance Appreciation meets the needs of dance students who are new to dance as well as those who are experienced in the art form. The text helps learners discover more about themselv...

Although music-dance making would seem, intuitively, to be part of leisure studies, music and dance very seldom appear beyond the simple form of “activity” and rarely as music-danc...

This title in the American Dance Floor series provides an overview of the origins, development, and current status of Latin social dancing in the United States.Latin dance and musi...

Every dancer of every age, ability, and style should be able to engage fully in the act of dancing and be encouraged to achieve their potential without risk of harm to the body or ...

Abstract We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challenges to t...

Abstract Snakes have been successful colonizers of islands, where some have replaced mammals as top carnivores and are key elements in food webs. Snakes are present ...

Dance and politics move and move one another in complex and myriad ways. What aspects or efficacy of a dance can be considered political, and what possibilities and understandings ...

Timothy Dodge explores African American interest in and participation in country music dates from the earliest days of the recording industry’s racial segregation of vernacular mus...