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Madura's Danceland

Author : Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738584263
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Madura's Danceland written by Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danceland! For hundreds of thousands of couples from all around the Calumet region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago's East Side, the name alone conjures up memories of dancing and romancing to thousands of live big bands. Opening night in October 1929 drew over 2,000 people to the beautiful ballroom with the famous maplewood dance floor. It continued to thrive with live music four nights a week and 12 months a year throughout the Big Band Era, despite the Great Depression and World War II, and into the rock 'n roll era, until it burned to the ground on Sunday morning, July 23, 1967. Almost everyone's marriage in the region began with a dance at Madura's Danceland. In the 38 years Danceland was open, it had only two owners and managers, Michael (Mike) Madura Sr. and Michael (Mick) J. Madura Jr., father and son. It remained a family business for all those years, with three generations of the Madura family having worked there in many capacities.

Going to the Palais

Author : James Nott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192570455
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Going to the Palais written by James Nott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1920s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain - a place rivalled only by the cinema and eventually to eclipse even that institution in popularity. Going to the Palais examines the history of this vital social and cultural institution, exploring the dances, dancers, and dance venues that were at the heart of one of twentieth-century Britain's most significant leisure activities. Going to the Palais has several key focuses. First, it explores the expansion of the dance hall industry and the development of a 'mass audience' for dancing between 1918 and 1960. Second, the impact of these changes on individuals and communities is examined, with a particular concentration on working and lower-middle-class communities, and on young men and women. Third, the cultural impact of dancing and dance halls is explored. A key aspect of this debate is an examination of how Britain's dance culture held up against various standardizing processes (for example, commercialization, Americanization) over the period, and whether we can see the emergence of a 'national' dance culture. Finally, the volume offers an assessment of wider reactions to dance halls and dancing in the period. Going to the Palais is concerned with the complex relationship between discourses of class, culture, gender, and national identity and how they overlap - how cultural change, itself a response to broader political, social, and economic developments, was helping to change notions of class, gender, and national identity.

Records & Briefs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Records & Briefs written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Beats

Author : Christi Jay Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197559301
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Between Beats written by Christi Jay Wells and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay Wells shows how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music's formation and development even as jazz music came to earn a reputation as a "legitimate" art form better suited for still, seated listening. Through the concept of choreographies of listening, the book explores amateur and professional jazz dancers' relationships with jazz music and musicians as jazz's soundscapes and choreoscapes were forged through close contact and mutual creative exchange. It also unpacks the aesthetic and political negotiations through which jazz music supposedly distanced itself from dancing bodies. Fusing little-discussed material from diverse historical and contemporary sources with the author's own years of experience as a social jazz dancer, it advances participatory dance and embodied practice as central topics of analysis in jazz studies. As it explores the fascinating history of jazz as popular dance music, it exposes how American anxieties about bodies and a broad cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to "elevate" expressive forms such as jazz to elite status.

Dancing Europe

Author : Nicole Haitzinger
Publisher : epodium
ISBN 13 : 3940388874
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Europe written by Nicole Haitzinger and published by epodium. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multifaceted book investigates the place of dance and performance in the development, confirmation and subversion of conceptions of Europe from the 20th century up until today. Its contributions unravel the nexus between Europe and dance from historical and contemporaneous perspectives, and testify to an understanding of Europe based on different constructions of (alternative) societies. Through the threefold themes of identities, languages and institutions, this volume reveals the complexity of this topic. It investigates the construction of European identities in and through performance and their intersection with local or global cultures; explores versatile models of European multilingualism and linguistic diversity on stage; and considers the constructions of Europe, in dance, as conditioned by institutional and socio-political frameworks. The first volume of its kind, it offers a collection of previously unpublished chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. It will make essential reading for anyone interested in the fields of dance, performance and European Studies, and serve as an important springboard for future research in this area.

Ella Fitzgerald

Author : Stuart Nicholson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136788131
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Ella Fitzgerald written by Stuart Nicholson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Nicholson's biography of Ella Fitzgerald is considered a classic in jazz literature. Drawing on original documents, interviews, and new information, Nicholson draws a complete picture of Fitzgerald's professional and personal life. Fitzgerald rose from being a pop singer with chart-novelty hits in the late '30s to become a bandleader and then one of the greatest interpreters of American popular song. Along with Billie Holiday, she virtually defined the female voice in jazz, and countless others followed in her wake and acknowledged her enormous influence. Also includes two 8-page inserts.

New York Supreme Court

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Dancing in the English style

Author : Allison Abra
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526105950
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the English style written by Allison Abra and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. It describes the rise of modern ballroom dancing as Britain's predominant popular style, as well as the opening of hundreds of affordable dancing schools and purpose-built dance halls. It focuses in particular on the relationship between the dance profession and dance hall industry and the consumers who formed the dancing public. Together these groups negotiated the creation of a 'national' dancing style, which constructed, circulated, and commodified ideas about national identity. At the same time, the book emphasizes the global, exploring the impact of international cultural products on national identity construction, the complexities of Americanisation, and Britain's place in a transnational system of production and consumption that forged the dances of the Jazz Age.

Cedar Rapids

Author : Mark Stoffer Hunter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439645604
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Cedar Rapids written by Mark Stoffer Hunter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporated as a town in 1849 and then reincorporated as a city in 1856, Cedar Rapids has never stopped progressing. It earned its place as the second-largest city in Iowa through continuous attention to innovative growth and development of where people work and live. Images of Modern America: Cedar Rapids highlights modern-day Cedar Rapids, focusing on changes and events from around 1960 to the earliest years of the 21st century. This City of Five Seasons, now building anew with respect for its history, continues to move forward with increasing business, cultural, and recreational opportunities for the entire community.

The Monthly Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Monthly Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1940-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Camber

Author : Don McKay
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996677
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Camber written by Don McKay and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of Don McKay is renowned for its piquant wit, lyric emotion, and pitch-perfect vernacular music. His work has received national acclaim and the recognition of many awards, including the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, which he has won twice, and, most recently, from the prestigious and internationally known Griffin Poetry Prize, for which his most recent book was a finalist. Camber is the lilt in the physics of flight, the anti-gravitational alchemy of both wings and poetry. It is also at the heart of the poetry of Don McKay. Spanning three decades, and drawing on all of McKay’s major collections, this selection distills the essence of his craft and provides an overview of, and an ideal introduction to, the work to date of one of Canada’s most celebrated poets.

Rhythm Man

Author : Stephanie Stein Crease
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190055693
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Rhythm Man written by Stephanie Stein Crease and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America presents the first full-length biography of the Swing Era icon, restoring this pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader's primacy alongside other 20th century jazz giants.

Macon County

Author : Dan Guillory
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738541365
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Macon County written by Dan Guillory and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decatur, Illinois' nineteenth and twentieth century history is presented through vintage photographs.

Seaside Heights

Author : Christopher J. Vaz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439638535
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Seaside Heights written by Christopher J. Vaz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seaside Heights tells the history of a timeless seashore resort community located on a barrier island nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay. The 224-acre town was settled by residents of Philadelphia and Camden, who purchased white-sand lots to escape city life for the brisk ocean breezes and tranquility that Seaside Heights offered prior to World War II. Seaside Heights uses the scenes captured in vintage postcards, some of them very rare, as a study of the changes that have occurred in the town since its incorporation in 1913.

With the Irish Set

Author : Richard Edward Devlin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496907116
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book With the Irish Set written by Richard Edward Devlin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years ago, the author started out on a journey to learn Irish set dancing, at an age, he says When most men and women are pulling the stool closer to the turf fire and dreaming of life when life was young. The journey took him from Nova Scotia to Milwaukee, Killarney, Ballinasloe and many lesser-known places in between, including a wacky little burg in the Catskills where Irish dreamers had painted green shamrocks on the pavement all up and down the principal street. Along the way, Devlin says, he met the wildest assortment of Irish and Irish-American characters imaginable and chapter by chapter, Devlin brings these fascinating people and their sometimes amusing, but always endearing, ways, close to your chair and into your heart. Like all of us who cling to our sense of an Irish heritage, Devlin says, Like a moth to a bright light, I am drawn to Irish ways. As a reader, if you share this life view, you will love this book. ________________________________________________________________ A hilarious account from deep inside the mind of a new set dancer progressing from his wifes reluctant partner to a fully obsessed set dancer who meets a host of entertaining and endearing characters along the way. Bill Lynch; Publisher, Set Dancing News. Swaggering, comical, and shrewd, Devlins memoir is an insiders entertaining tale of the oddities and magical allure of the Irish set dancing world.. Cynthia Neale; Author of the Irish Dresser and Norah.

Everybody's Heard about the Bird

Author : Rick Shefchik
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452949743
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Everybody's Heard about the Bird written by Rick Shefchik and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you didn’t experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s, this book will make you wish you had. This behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big. It was a brief, heady moment for the musicians who found themselves on a national stage, enjoying a level of success most bands only dream of. In Everybody’s Heard about the Bird, Rick Shefchik writes of that time in vivid detail. Interviews with many of the key musicians, combined with extensive research and a phenomenal cache of rare photographs, reveal how this monumental era of Minnesota rock music evolved. The chronicle begins with musicians from the 1950s and early 1960s, including Augie Garcia, Bobby Vee, the Fendermen, and Mike Waggoner and the Bops. Shefchik looks at how a local recording studio and record label, along with Minnesota radio stations, helped make their achievements possible and prepared the way for later bands to break out nationally. Shefchik delves deeply into the Trashmen’s emblematic rise to fame. A Minneapolis band that recorded a fluke novelty hit called “Surfin’ Bird” at Kay Bank Studios, the Trashmen signed with Soma Records, topped the local charts in late 1963, and were poised to top the national charts in early 1964. Hundreds of Minnesota bands took inspiration from the Trashmen’s success, as teen dances with live bands flourished in clubs, ballrooms, gyms, and halls across the Upper Midwest. Here are the stories of bands like the Gestures, the Castaways, and the Underbeats, and the triumphs—and tragedies—of the most prominent Minnesota-spawned bands of the late 1960s, including Gypsy, Crow, and the Litter. For the baby boomers who remember it and everyone else who has felt its influence, the 1960s rock-and-roll scene in Minnesota was an extraordinary period both in musical history and popular culture, and now it’s captured fully in print for the first time. Everybody’s Heard about the Bird celebrates how these bands found their singular sound and played for their elated audiences from the golden era to today.

Players' work time

Author : John Callan Williamson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526108291
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Players' work time written by John Callan Williamson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is about musicians’ working lives in Britain from the late Victorian era to the present day. Using the Musicians’ Union as a prism through which to explore those lives, the book illuminates the key factors which shape musicians’ working lives including such things as changes in technology, law and the music industries, while also considering matters of nationality, gender and genre. Anyone interested in music and the people who make it will be interested in this history.