Balkan fascination : creating an alternative music culture in America / Mirjana Lausevic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laušević, Mirjana.

Series:

American musicspheres.

American musicspheres

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--United States--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Folk music--Balkan Peninsula--History and criticism.

Music--United States--Balkan influences.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no family or ethnic connection. Going beyond traditional interpretations, she challenges the notion that participation in Balkan culture in North America is merely a specialized offshoot of the 1960's American folk music scene. Instead, her exploration of the relationship between the stark sounds and lively dances of the Balkan region and the Americans who love them reveals that Balkan dance and music

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Ethnography of the Balkan Music and Dance Scene ; The "Balkanites" ; Why Balkan?

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

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

Part IV: 1950s and beyond ; International folk dance and the "Balkan craze" ; The rise of the Balkan scene

conclusion.

Key to selections on DVD: p. 297-298; Key to selections on CD: p. 299.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-029241-5

1-281-15898-4

9786611158989

0-19-534358-1

1-4294-6862-9

OCLC:

437092691