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Step Change: New Views on Traditional Dance.(Book Review)

Publication: Folklore
Publication Date: 01-DEC-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Step Change: New Views on Traditional Dance. Edited by Georgina Boyes. London: Frances Boutle, 2001. 201 pp. Illus. 10.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 1-903427-09-6

This interesting collection of essays echoes the fabled Americo Paredes and Richard Bauman volume, Toward New Perspectives...

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...in Folklore (1972), which signified a sea-change from studies of the what of folklore to the how and where. However, it is unlikely that this volume will have the same impact: first because the scholarly dance readership is thin on the ground, and second because there is nothing here that heralds a dramatic new methodological shift or theoretical concern. In fact, there is little consistency, either in terms of subject or approach, but that is not to suggest that the contents are insubstantial or unworthy; rather, that the studies are different and complementary--from international and wide-ranging studies to those that are detailed and local--from studies of folk dance performers to...

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