Dance legacies of Scotland : the true Glen Orchy kick / Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melin, Mats, author.

Schoonover, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clog dancing--Scotland--History.

Clog dancing.

Step dancing--Scotland--History.

Step dancing.

Dance--Scotland--History.

Dance.

History.

Scotland--Social life and customs.

Scotland.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Mats Melin is a lecturer at University of Limerick, Ireland. He has worked and performed extensively in Angus, Sutherland, the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland, promoting Scottish traditional dance in schools and communities. Jennifer Schoonover is a dancer and choreographer. She teaches movement principles, improvisation, dance pedagogy, and dance modalities including Cape Breton Step, Ceilidh, Highland, and Scottish Country dancing.

Contents:

1 'I wish I had it in my power to describe to you': introductory observations on Step dance and its place in Scotland p. 12

2 From regional variations to standardisation of vernacular dance p. 27

3 Na brògan dannsaidh/The dancing shoes: foot anatomy, footwear, and body posture p. 41

4 Gaelic references and continental European connections p. 55

5 From Hornpipes to High Dances: historical terms and overlapping usage p. 67

6 Hyland step forward: eighteenth-century accounts p. 77

7 A few more flings and shuffles: nineteenth-century accounts, 1880-1839 p. 100

8 Aberdeenshire to the Hebrides: nineteenth-century accounts, 1840-1899 p. 131

9 Breakdown: twentieth-century accoubts p. 162

10 An t-Seann Dùthaich: dancing in the Scottish diaspora p. 184

11 First-hand Step dance encounters and recollections in Scotland from the 1980s to 2016 collected by Mats Melin p. 199

12 Weaving the steps to the music p. 211

13 Echoes and reflections p. 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Melin, Mats. Dance legacies of Scotland

ISBN:

9781003043607

1003043607

9781000334333

1000334333

9781000334111

1000334112

9781000334227

1000334228

Publisher Number:

40030294553

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.