Loughborough University
Browse
DOCUMENT
3c91221f-4381-4ff1-bdde-ab7aa4fe3daf.pdf (96.47 MB)
TEXT
3c91221f-4381-4ff1-bdde-ab7aa4fe3daf.json (49.45 kB)
1/0
2 files

Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (PDF)

book
posted on 2024-06-04, 14:09 authored by Anne von Bibra Wharton, Helena Saarikoski, Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland
From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of often newly discovered primary sources, the essays afford many opportunities to compare sociocultural and political reactions to the arrival and practice of popular rotating couple dances, such as the Waltz and the Polka. Leading contributors provide a transnational and affective lens onto strikingly diverse topics, ranging from the evolution of romantic couple dances in Croatia, and Strauss’s visits to Hamburg and Altona in the 1830s, to dance as a tool of cultural preservation and expression in twentieth-century Finland. Waltzing Through Europe creates openings for fresh collaborations in dance historiography and cultural history across fields and genres. It is essential reading for researchers of dance in central and northern Europe, while also appealing to the general reader who wants to learn more about the vibrant histories of these familiar dance forms.

History

Thoth Work ID

3c91221f-4381-4ff1-bdde-ab7aa4fe3daf

Usage metrics

    Thoth Archiving Network

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Licence

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC