Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick

ISBN-13: 9780367489472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str.

Mats Melin; Jennifer Schoonover

Opis

Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices.

Recenzje

''This important and timely publication addresses intriguing and long-unanswered questions concerning
historical and recent practices of percussive stepdancing in Scotland. Co-authors Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover possess excellent credentials to pursue and interrogate legacies of dancing in Scotland. As scholar practitioners with long and extensive experience of Scottish dance forms, they bring complementary knowledge and authority to the subject. Details of embodied memories of step-dancing drawn from Mats Melin’s fieldwork conducted in Scotland from the 1980s to 2016 reveal vestiges of a once familiar practice that was submerged and often dismissed. In summary, this is an important contribution to dance scholarship and an accessible text for those interested in percussive dancing and in Scottish culture and history.'' Folk Music Journal,  Theresa Jill Buckland, University of Roehampton, London

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. ‘I wish I had it in my power to describe to you’: introductory observations on Step dance and its place in Scotland, 2. From regional variations to standardisation of vernacular dance, 3. Na brògan dannsaidh/The dancing shoes: foot anatomy, footwear, and body posture, 4. Gaelic references and continental European connections, 5. From Hornpipes to High Dances: historical terms and overlapping usage, 6. Hyland step forward: eighteenth-century accounts, 7. A few more flings and shuffles: nineteenth-century accounts, 1800–1839, 8. Aberdeenshire to the Hebrides: nineteenth-century accounts, 1840–1899, 9. Breakdown: twentieth-century accounts, 10. An t-Seann Dùthaich: dancing in the Scottish diaspora, 11. First-hand Step dance encounters and recollections in Scotland from the 1980s to 2016 collected by Mats Melin, 12. Weaving the steps to the music, 13. Echoes and reflections