... francesi is remarkable. ¹⁵ The fact that the dances were copied in Vienna makes them even more unusual. 2 Airs de ballet et d’opéra, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. Vm6-5, fol.21r. The middle three tunes on the page are used for dances 6 to 8 of the Balletti francesi...

... the observation hive. Both feeders were left at the final location until a minimum of ten confirmed foragers were reliably visiting each feeder, which usually took until mid or late afternoon on Day 0, right before the start of the experimental phase. We also video-recorded waggle dances made by the marked bees...

... of musical instruments in church prohibition of public dances and entertainments with music Orlande de Lassus Giovanni Animuccia Ludovico Balbi Music historians are certainly familiar with the figure of Cardinal Carlo Borromeo ( illuss.1 – 2 ). Important research has illuminated his association...

... Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and at Coimbra University Library. Notated in tablature, they display a large number of pieces of supposed African origin, along with many Iberian dances and instrumental items. While the African influence is suggested by the titles, literary sources, historical context...

... in the first half of the chapter, and many examples are taken from the Africa in America recording, which is listed in the book’s Recommended Recordings list. The second half of the chapter focuses on song-and-dance forms in both sacred and secular contexts. Because the cinquillo-tresillo...

...Figure 11.1 ‘Charleston posed by Ted Rogers, Jien Saergent and Viola Worden who are appearing with great success in vaudeville’. The photo appears alongside an article by Curtis Mitchell, ‘Why Dorothy Dances Jazz Steps: Fred Stone, American Comedian, Tells Why He Trained His Daughter...

...Cuban dance researcher Graciela Chao Carbonero discusses how the African element penetrates all aspects of Cuban dance. She begins with the African-based danced religions of Cuba, Regla de Ocha or Santería (the religion of the Yoruba orishas), Palo Monte and other Congolese-based sects, Arará...

...In 1986 Janet Wason was asked to spend six months on the island of Dominica to research, report on, and video its dances. Here she concentrates on two genres she studied intensively, the African-descended bele and the European-derived quadrille, though both, she shows, have absorbed influences from...

... nostalgic memories of dancing with lost loves, singing soldiers longing for home, and sufferers’ faith in the face of death. Dances, parlor songs, or hymns were played when they were mentioned in poetic texts. Songs served as an audible expression of grief, loss, memory, and the fragility of human...

...This book begins by describing how Blanche Grant, like many of the artists and writers who had settled in Santa Fe and Taos after the turn of the century, considered the Pueblo dances a picturesque blend of “primitive” religion and Catholic ritualism. This combination was evident in her description...

...From the beginnings of the African presence in New Orleans, authorities feared the potential of unsupervised black music making. Whites dreaded the possibility that the disrespectable music and dance would spread to the broader population, threatening racial purity. The same fears came to the fore...

...This chapter analyses a local iteration of an international event focused on dancing for safe water for everyone: Global Water Dances. This large-scale project provides a lens on the ways in which communities form and dissolve on local and global scales, shifting the traditional boundaries...

...As the dance artists that the Mexican government created through its schools and companies matured, they carried its dances across international borders. The tensions between nationalist esthetics and more formal approaches to creating art were increasingly visible in Mexican painting, yet its...

...This chapter studies the relation between state-sanctioned ideology and daily life. It analyzes the combination between daily terror and music, song, and dance in Cambodian genocide. It notes that during this genocidal period, the Khmer Rouge banned older, “counterrevolutionary” aesthetic practices...

...This chapter, which examines the connection between the work of coal miners, the major audience for jazz and dance music, and the big bands in West Virginia during the 1930s and 1940s, traces the flow of money from the coal seam to the dance venue and to the band providing the music. It discusses...

... information about the daily life of one black band in the mid-1930s. The chapter also provides Barnes’s records of the earnings of the Oliver Band in West Virginia, and from dances in states adjacent to West Virginia and in the Deep South. Barnes Paul D “Polo ” Celestin Oscar “Papa ” Morton Ferdinand “Jelly...

...This chapter traces the development of the Salome Craze. Salome became a prominent feature in opera and vaudeville from the early 1900s. In August 1908 there were four Salomes performing in New York alone; by October there were twenty-four. Salome dances presaged burlesque, paving the way...

...This chapter examines African American square dancing traditions in Martinsville, Henry County, Southwest Virginia. It tells the story of African American dances in Martinsville from the perspective of four people who were central to it through much of the twentieth century: fiddler Leonard Bowles...

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...Dancing Black, Dancing White. Julie Malnig, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197536254.003.0005 Chapter 4 describes the African American basis for the majority of the dances seen and danced on the televised teen dance shows. Popular...