By Susan Eike Spalding
Spalding analyzes how concerns as disparate as industrialization round coal, race kin, and the Nineteen Seventies people revival profoundly inspired freestyle clogging and different dance varieties. She finds how African americans and local americans, in addition to ecu immigrants interested in the trees turbines and coal fields, additional to neighborhood dance vocabularies. via putting each one neighborhood in its sociopolitical and fiscal context, Spalding explores how the formal and stylistic nuances present in Appalachian dance mirror the ideals, shared understandings, and reports of the group at large.
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Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities by Susan Eike Spalding
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