Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century Bakka Egil
Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century Bakka Egil From 'folk devils' to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of…
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Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century Bakka Egil
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. 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 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.