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Article: Attitudes.(American dance style)(defining American dance)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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What is so American about American dance and how did it get that way? Or did it? The subject of nationalism in dance has forever raised questions more vexed than simple. Nationalism in music, nowadays often used in a disparaging sense-slightly grubby if not downright dirty--is fairly easy to recognize. It comes fundamentally from folk music. At least it does in Europe. The folk dances finding their accompaniment to this music--the Hungarian czardas, the Polish mazurka, the German waltz, the Russian trepak, and even English Morris dancing--have a recognizably formalized shape.
North America is another matter. Here we don't have much in the way of folk dance ...
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