Patricia Ballantyne

Scottish Dance Beyond 1805

Reaction and Regulation

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Produktbeschreibung

Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 presents a history of Scottish music and dance over the last 200 years, with a focus on sources originating in Aberdeenshire, when steps could be adapted in any way the dancer pleased. It explains the major changes of how dance was taught, and performed by highlighting a move to the professional, licensed teachers.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781032239262
• ISBN-10: 1032239263
• Artikelnr.: 62952608

Autorenporträt

Patricia H. Ballantyne is an Honorary Research Associate with the University of Aberdeen at the Elphinstone Institute, the University's Centre for the study of Ethnology, Folklore and Ethnomusicology.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Historical context 1 Introduction 2 Francis Peacock: just a
provincial eighteenth-century dancing master? 3 Francis Peacock: the
significance of the music and dance of the Highlanders 4 How did they dance
in the early nineteenth century? 5 Charlatans and simplifications 6 A
successful provincial 'Professor': the early career of Adam 'Cosmo'
Mitchell 7 Professionalising the professors: the later career of Adam
'Cosmo' Mitchell, and the transition from dancing master to dance teacher
8 From the Imperial Society of Dance Teachers to the Scottish Official
Board of Highland Dancing: how dancing developed in Scotland between 1900
and 1955
PART II Contemporary context 9 Rules and regulations: effects of
standardisation on Highland dancing and piping in the late twentieth
century 10 Bringing it full circle? Some reactions to regulation Appendix
of tables